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spin the wheel for a genre!

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I need your help with a hypothesis!

For context: My linguistics professor and I got into a discussion after a test she did with us, and I was of the opinion that the reason for the results was different from the one she offered, so she encouraged me to test my theory.

What I need

All you need to do is draw a coffee cup (with a handle, not the disposable stuff) and then answer three questions.

I don't need to see the coffee cup. You can draw it wherever you like; on a piece of paper, digitally, in the sand, on a foggy window. Anything works. It does not have to be good. A doodle is fine.

You have to draw the coffee cup before you see the questions. This is very important. If you decide to help me with this, please doodle the coffee cup before you keep reading.

Assuming you have drawn the coffee cup, I now need you to answer these three questions:

On which side did you draw the handle?

Are you right-handed or left-handed?

Do you primarily write using the Latin alphabet or a different one? (please specify which)

More context

Most people will draw the handle on the right side. My professor says it's because most people are right-handed, so they draw the handle in the direction that would be comfortable for them to pick up.

I said drawing it on the right side just felt more comfortable to my hand and argued it's probably because we write a bunch of letters like that. B, b, D, P, p, R all look like a tiny "handle on the right side" and are all a straight line followed by a round one (so "cup first, handle second," like most people draw cups). The Latin alphabet doesn't have letters like that that face the other way, except maybe d, depending on how you write it, so it makes sense to me that people writing mostly Latin letters would go with the handle on the right side.

Which means that I need to know what Asians, Arabs and Greeks do and if the distribution of left and right sides of handles differs from the Latin alphabet group. Cyrillic seems to favor right, too, though it'd be interesting to see if there are differences.

If there are, my theory is right. Doubly so if there is a sizeable increase in a group whose alphabet has letters that benefit the left side choice.

So feel free to spread this to as many people as you like and put the answers in the comments or the tags of a reblog. The more answers I get, the better I can assess whose theory is better.

Thank you for your help!

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going to sugarpine

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imagine if for April Fools recreyo posted a video that had a normal intro and everything but it was JUST like the glitched out fnaf episode where it’s like 20 mins of blacked out static with morse code calling us losers

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hi there, recreyoblr?

happy holidays?

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amalgamated doodles to get back in the groove ft some old faves of mine (Miku Myers and Jamie Lloyd!)

Mickle and Jason with eyes look so cursed to me. I love it.

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I love skylanders so very much, I want to draw more fanart of it :)

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Sorry I haven't been active lately but I am super happy more people are interacting with this blog lol

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Pick a live-action movie. Keep one human actor; everyone else is played by muppets.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, in two variations:

1. Keep both title roles human on the grounds that they’re really a single composite character; Kermit the Frog is cast as the Player King for maximum meta fuckery.

2. The Player King stays human; cross-cast with Sesame Street and make the title roles Bert and Ernie.

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Power Couple (2)

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they made pre-teen me experience an entirely new range of emotions known only to select shrimp

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jigsaw couldn’t run total drama for shit but if Chris McLean got a hold of the saw traps I don’t think anyone would be alive in the franchise

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GUYS THEY'RE 4LIFERS CANON LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOOO‼️‼️