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To: Jack Clarke who wrote (368)1/3/1998 3:04:00 PM
From: Zeev Hed  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 4711
 
Jack, Your Latin memory? or your remembrence of Latin? You did not strike me as one dancing the Samba (VBG). And no arguments on the Negro problem, of course the use of the world "sinister" to designate evil is more akin to the derogatory terms such as "niger". As a matter of fact, my very "politically correct" wife always frown on my use of the term "denigrate" (which is really means, I believe to "blacken").

Zeev



To: Jack Clarke who wrote (368)1/3/1998 3:24:00 PM
From: Janice Shell  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 4711
 
Jack--

Apparently the current use arose from apprehension that a leftie could shake your right hand in the usual way, yet be hiding a weapon in his dominant left hand.

In Italian it means both "left" and "sinister". It's also good manners here to rest one's left forearm on the table while eating; this, too, supposedly originated as a polite way of demonstrating that one was not armed.

Janice


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