The film tells the fictional story a boxer who sets out to get his life back on track after losing his wife in an accident and his young daughter to protective services.
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Southpaw Johnny Antonelli of the New York Giants lets fly with the horsehide, striking out nine Cleveland batters and taking the second straight game of the World Series for the Giants. Now That's Interesting. Cite This! In , a political illustration was published showing future USA president Millard Fillmore lying black-eyed on the floor, having been knocked down by the Democratic presidential candidate Lewis Cass. Although, Fillmore had the last laugh after later defeating Cass at the ballots to become president.
Fun Fact! If Lewis Cass had in fact defeated Millard Fillmore, then we would have had yet another name to add to the long, long list of left handed USA presidents! There actually is an even earlier recorded use of the term. Although the exact reason for this is unknown, it has been suggested that various negative religious associations with being left handed could be the cause.
North has long been thought of as being the direction of heaven, and south the direction of hell. For centuries many people believed that lefties were evil, so this is definitely a plausible explanation.
In boxing, a southpaw fighter holds their right hand and foot forward and leads with right hand jabs. They will unleash their most powerful blows with their dominant left hand. The opposite to southpaw stance in boxing is known as orthodox stance, and is an exact mirror image of this pose.
So, left hand and foot forward, and saving the right hand for the more punishing blows. In fact, it is more of a compliment because southpaws have a strategic and tactical advantage over right-handers due to stance. Remember that sinister is the Latin word for left-handed.. Historically, the left side, and subsequently left-handedness, was considered negative in many cultures.
The Latin word sinistra originally meant "left" but took on meanings of "evil" or "unlucky" by the Classical Latin era, and this double meaning survives in European derivatives of Latin, and in the English word "sinister".
Meanings gradually developed from use of these terms in the ancient languages. In many modern European languages, including English, the word for the direction "right" also means "correct" or "proper", and also stands for authority and justice. In most Slavic languages the root prav is used in words carrying meanings of correctness or justice.
Because most people are right handed, there is a notion of it being 'natural' to use their right hand. This is probably where we get the overlap with words that mean 'correct'. Doing something left-handed, for most people, is doing it backwards. People are rarely left-handed, so there is an 'us verses them' notion behind the term.
Right handed people are the default and left-handed people are different. Note phrases like "right hand man" describing someone you rely on. Finally, a large percentage of leaders seem to be left handed for reasons I cannot fathom , so perhaps sinister meaning evil has some root in people's criticism of those with power?
Theory goes, left-handers have an advantage in battle everyone has fought and trained against a right hander. Those that won, and had good political skills got to rule and remain ruling and reproduce, so it was self selecting for leadership. What is odd about that theory is our almost static percentage of the population thru the ages.
That's an interesting take I haven't looked into the history of middle infielders, but left handed middle infielders would require a half a second pivot to throw to first base, especially when going for double plays.
Thus, maybe there is a basis for left handers. Seeing how the active roster was capped somewhere between during the s, it could very well be the case that having a left handed thrower were anathema to the team when you need 9 players to field. Where are you getting it's derogatory? It wasn't stated or implied in the article. The phrase "Well, that went south really quickly" tends to mean a situation got really bad.
Implying that south is bad. Is that true? I always assumed it's because on a map and in general, south is associated with down. So "going south" is basically like "going downhill", etc. Luc on June 20, root parent prev next [—]. Perhaps related: the Latin words for left and right are sinister and dexter, which obviously have connotations Seems etymologically plausible at the least.
Left-handedness used to be frowned upon up to the point of children being forced to write with their right hands in school often under physical threat of a ruler or reed slapped across your left hand if you did dare to use it.
Glad that was over when I grew up in the eighties. Even today some people react with surprise when they see me writing with my left hand. We're a sizeable minority of ten percent — it's far from rare — but amongst older generations it sometimes just comes across as weird I'm in my thirties myself.
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