Left-handed male linguists

[Max Enrique Figueroa Esteva]

As I already told Danielle, I was ambidexter as a child, but forced upon
myself the condition of right-handedness, a very stupid decision which I
sincerely regret. However, I have sort of specialised my left hand in
different tasks and, among other things, my left arm and hand are a bit
stronger than the right ones.
As a child I not only was ambidexter, but practically a "quadruman" when
unobserved (picking up pencils and objects from the floor, out of
laziness, even clumsily writing, etc.). This went on until I was about 13
or 14.
My stupid decision was not due to parental pression, much to the
contrary: I was pathologically shy and simply didn't feel like calling much
attention upon myself.
I am amazed at the quantity of colleagues who are "lefties" (physically,
I mean), [among them you, Van... what about my fellow-countryman, Jorge
Guitart? Luis Roberto Choy, also a Cuban linguist, now in the USA, is a
"leftie" too, and so are many others in Cuba], although I haven't been
able to follow the whole of the discussion.
Is anyone dressing up a list of "lefties" and "ambies" among us?
It should prove useful and most interesting! As a matter of fact,
 I've just decided to send the question to Cuban linguists, perhaps also
 to Dominican linguists, and see what comes out of it!
 Bye! Max

 On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Danielle Cyr wrote:

> >Subject: Re: Left-handed male linguists
> >Date: Wed, 7 Jan 98 11:42:48 -0500
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> >To: "Danielle Cyr" <dcyr at YORKU.CA>, <FUNKNET at LISTSERV.RICE.EDU>
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> >I'm left-handed and male, as are two of my colleagues, Jean-Pierre Koenig
> >and David Zubin.  So a third of the SUNY Buffalo department is
> >left-handed males.
> >
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