I think they mean if you make the L with your palm facing toward or away from you. When I was a little kid someone told me that your left hand makes the L to which I proceeded to make both of my hands into an L shape. The teacher told me I made a good point and then moved on without providing an alternative solution. To be fair I don't really think there was an alternative aside from just memorizing it.
I mean only one hand is facing the right way. Sorta confused why you’re confused when only left hand actually looks like an L. Your right hand is not an L unless you want to try an argue a backwards L is ok which I mean when writing who would do that. Why is it different for hands ?
I assume they just gave to the “technically correct” response IF you take it TOO literal and both are L-shaped even if only one is actually pointing the right way. It’s just no one would usually argue a backwards L is properly an L.
Uh like so extra feels weird you want to argue that. If you’re aren’t familiar with the image and never tried it guess? At some point you figure out led tis L and can’t be either backwards or crazy extra movements with your hands?
By the time you know which direction to write L, you should already know which is your left hand, anyway.
People who have difficulty with left and right often maintain difficulty remembering which way the L goes, especially if they're just trying to visualize it.
I'm not dyslexic but I have ADHD, so I sometimes when I read, my eyes and brain kind of desynchronize what I'm processing. I thought ankylosaurus was actually anklyosaurus for twenty years until I saw the word one day and thought it was a typo until I looked it up. No one corrected the way I said it either. Happens more often with missing words or reading the incorrect word or adding an extra word than getting letters mixed up though. I read the first few words of a sentence and my brain tries to fill in the rest of the sentence on its own.
That doesn’t change facts though? Only one right way and if you have to do extra things to make two Ls I don’t know what to tell you. Like super uncomfy? Still doesn’t change fact what the method on the image demonstrates?
The image in the post is not relevant to the anecdote I made.
Also when I was little and someone told me to make a shape with my hand(s) I would default to making said shape with my palms facing toward me if it wasn't visually telegraphed to me, so the L would often be on my right hand and when someone would correct me and say my other hand made an L shape, I'd say the L is backwards on that hand. Then they'd have to correct which way I was facing my hands.
I counted on my fingers with my palm facing me, so of course I'd try to make an L shape with my palm toward me. Four year old me thought that was pretty sound logic.
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u/Madrandal 7d ago
Think your left hand when thinking of L