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My pet peeve with anything set before the mid-20th-century is when someone is shown writing fluidly with their left hand and nobody smacks the back of that hand and .says "RIGHT hand only!"

OK, not that extreme, though my late grandmother got swatted a lot for that reason.

But before the later 20th century, children (at least in the US and UK) were always taught to write right-handed even if they were naturally left-handed. Some teachers and parents would tie a kid's left hand behind the kid's back or use other methods to force right-handedness. Especially when I see some historical setting where someone's blithely scribbling away left-handed, it takes me out of the reality of the setting. I'm sure there were adults who, later in their lives, wrote left-handed as they pleased, but overall it's just not true to many periods and places to see it on screen. [/quote]

Have you noticed how many actors are left-handed? It's amazing. [/quo

Yeah, I've noticed that. And it's pretty poor acting 101 to use your left hand to write (and sew etc.) in a period piece when the character would have been taught to write right-handed no matter what (and would have been punished in school for trying to write left-handed!). They usually arent' writing or sewing etc. for very long; the natural left-handed actors could do it right-handed for those scenes if anyone bothered about this tiny but very real detail and took a little time to practice for the scene...[/quote]

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