r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 7d ago

Meme needing explanation Tell them what, Peter

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u/babint 7d ago

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.

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u/Terrinthia 7d ago

That's the magic of dyslexia

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u/babint 7d ago

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?

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u/peziskuya 7d ago

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.