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by nottorp 35 days ago
Does that go for all languages, or western and mostly germanic languages?

Edit: or maybe indo-european and semitic to be more broad.

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Honestly I am not sure, it’s an interesting theory that matches our evolved right handedness as the “right” way to do something, and the other as left. Maybe left handed people were seen as different? And it seeped into language. There is a lot of ifs with and assumptions with this theory.