On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 12:03:07 +0100, whisky-dave wrote:

On Saturday, 19 October 2019 18:45:26 UTC+1, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Wed, 09 Oct 2019 14:01:56 +0100, whisky-dave wrote:

On Wednesday, 9 October 2019 01:07:28 UTC+1, Commander Kinsey wrote:
Things tend to be passed on, like accents.

No accents are learnt, or rather can be learnt, which is how impersonators work.

Passed on during learning to speak.

or later, peoples accents can change through out a persons life.

Mine didn't, mainly because I have **** all accent and I find almost every accent pointless.

It always amazes me that with so many people moving around, an accent still remains in a certain city.

To a certain area yes,

I guess it's because even if 10% of people move between Glasgow to Edinburgh, both cities still contain 90% of the original tongue, so that gets passed to the movers.

It's also considered an identity as you say you;d expect peole in scotland to have scottish accents, but if you came to London few will have what is known to be a London accent.

That's because most of London is Muslims. Throw them off the cliffs of Dover!

Mind you, I don't pick up accents. I speak the way I spoke when I learned it as a young child. I don't change accent when I speak to different people, but some seem to change within 10 minutes!

Yes. I knew a sweish girl that spend a year at uni in birmingham she came to London with a brummy accent !
I know French people that have lived in London 20+ years and they still sound French yet another after being here 7 years isn't recongnised as being French from his accent, even passport control questioned him when he came back from France.

Agreed, everyone is different.

but yuo'l notice that English speaking canadian sound a bit scottish, they say abooot rather than about.

That's not Scottish, they also they things like howse. They just carefully pronounce all the vowels.

What do you think the part of canada is called Nova Scotia for
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Nova Scotia" means "New Scotland" in Latin and is the recognized English-language name for the province. In both French and Scottish Gaelic, the province is directly translated as "New Scotland" (French: Nouvelle-Écosse. Gaelic: Alba Nuadh).
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Why on earth would anyone want to make another Scotland?

Most people find it easiier to use a one particualr hand than the other.

Bull****.

Nom it's a fact.

Becaseu that's the way they were taught!

No.
My mother was taught to use her right hand for writing, she had her knuckles hit with a wooden rular at school, but she could still only write with her left hand.

Your mother is therefore left handed.

well done you've got it.

She's a minority. Most people can use whatever hand they're taught to use. Those who are limited to oe hand are inferior.

But my point is, how do I know if I'm right handed or ambidextrous? People who can write with their right hand never bother trying with their left.

Why don't they ?

Because right handed writing is the norm.

One way of telling is to throw something at a persons face see which hand they use to protect themselves.
or ask them to pick something up.
Ask them to stand on one leg.

All that does is show which hand they prefer to use, that could be which they are better at using, or it could be which hand they were taught to use for stuff like writing.

Most people find it easier to use the hand they're used to.

Yes and that is what handedness means and for most it's the right hand
which is prefered. Left-handers are in the minority in all human populations.

No, handedness means you can only use one hand and you couldn't convert due to a fault.

No it doesn't.

What do you think left handed means then?

It means yuo have a certain preference for using a particualr hand even if it might seem more difficult to over come things like cutting paper the person will still try to use the hand they find most easy to use.
Despite the vast majoroty of guitars being made are and were for right handers, jimi hendrix was left handed and found it easier to use his left hand that he right destite his guitar was made for a right handed person.

Most are right handed. Left handers should be drowned at birth. That would make everyone the same and be easier to create tools for us to use with the same hand.

A small minority are left handed, these are known in society, as they write with their left hand. A small minority are right handed, they aren't noticed, as writing with your right hand is normal. Most of us could have learned to use either hand.

but not as easily tthat is the point.
Most fo use could learn to walk backwards or walk on our hands too.

Not the same thing. Both your hands look the same, there is no reason we can't use the other one for the same task.

total crap, or show me the evidence.

It's common sense, and the evidence isn't there because as I've told you countless times, people who can use their right don't try the left!

I have, and most people do at some point in their lives, just to see if they can.

But you don't spend years learning to use your left hand. You spent years learning to use your right hand at primary school to write with.

The brain is symmetrical.


Brain's Asymmetrical Shape Reflects Human Adaptability, MRI Study Suggests. The two halves of the human brain are not symmetrical.

So again you've got yuor facts wrong, or arse about face.

You just replied to yourself.

to prove you wrong yet again.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...technique.html

This suggests we should all actually learn to write with our left aswell, so both halves of the brain learn those sort of things.

But a waste of time and resources to have somemthing like that duplicated most people would use their brain for something more useful.
A friend of mine that had a bad car accident had to learn to write with his left hand, it took quite a while, longer than it took him to learn to write with his right hand. He also writes much more slowely with his left hand than he did with his right hand.

It took longer because he was older. Everything is quicker to learn when we are younger.

So as I said, us being right handed just means we developed that half of the brain, and could have developed the other half. Or both.

It's not the whole of the brain that is used for writing.

We don't need the whole of the brain, just the half for the hand we choose to use.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/brain...-mri_n_3146104

Interesting:
"The human brain is known to be asymmetric €” the €œleft brain€œ is involved in language processing, for example, while the €œright brain€� is where spatial reasoning takes place."
So firstly, are left handers the opposite way round? Is their brain installed back to front?

No.

So how come they want to write with the wrong hand?

They don't.

Again: "The human brain is known to be asymmetric €” the €œleft brain€œ is involved in language processing, for example, while the €œright brain€� is where spatial reasoning takes place."

Yep.

Which put simply, means that one half of your brain is designed better for writing. So if you're not a right hander, your brain must be in backwards.

you've certainly worked out how you brain mis-functions haven't you.

No, because mine functions properly, the left side works for writing.