#English and right handed

[thesaltyace]

First language is English, right handed.

What does it mean if I sketched it with the handle on the right, but kinda on the backside of the mug? 😅

I did toy with the idea of putting the handle on the left, but it felt like I was viewing it from behind? The wrong side? Which leads back to the handle being on the right side because that's how it would look while I'm using it. Cool!

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!

[milamurart]

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You requested Billie and Daud in the last days before his death, so here's a little bittersweet-ish evening they shared. I hope you enjoy it! Because I sure did enjoy working on this prompt.

Have some great winter holidays, people

a bit of wips because I find them amusing

[satsuha]

home

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[euphoriaonpluto]

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Producer Yuan tweeted that the English tagline took inspiration from Shakespeare's As You Like It

Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is so ordinary that the whippers are in love too.

The Chinese tagline is "有美人兮，见之不忘" which can be translated as "There is a beautiful person, I will never forget them after seeing them"

Producer Yuan explained that this Chinese tagline comes from an ancient Chinese poem and she feels that it describes the visible yearning and longing Ming has for Joe in EP.11

[kataracy]

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“I’m nervous. Am I doing okay?”

“You’re doing amazing Sweetie.”

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In the game files there's some audio that's just like. "Generic Story Voices". The same ones that I got Kaito and Towa's incantations from. Generic audios were used in campus chats before they got fully voiced I believe, but now they're not used anywhere as far as I know.

One of Sho's is labeled 'Hyde'

And he uses 'Aniki' for him???

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And then we got the 'I'm counting on you Shohei' bit and I was like. O h. Either he's actually fond of/respects Hyde a lot and has no problem being obedient towards him or he just. Speaks to him respectfully out of intimidation maybe? Or habit since he speaks restfully to other people? Idk. Why does he refer to him so respectfully. . . . . . . .i wanna know. . . . .tell us what their secret dealings are zzg. . . . .based on the way he talks to him in the campus chat he doesn't respect him like that but they were also in like a main hall of the building? Maybe in private he speaks and acts totally different?

[roaringwish]

Mugen Noh

[tetrabriku]

Iseya: I’m cold

Eiwajima: here you can have my haori

Izaya: I’m cold too

Shizuo: well dammit izaya I don’t control the fucking weather

It's them fr fr

I: The temperature has dropped lately-

E: Mh? Are you cold?

I: I'm not asking for your haori, keep your fleas away from me.

I: Are you ignoring me?- ...

E: *lil kissie*

Bonus izaya

[urghblergh]

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These ones feel kind of random and weird. Idk. 😅🫶🌌

reference pics ✨

@senshistock

this picture I found on pinterest 😅

[raggednorth]

I can't do any hand sewing currently, due to my neuropathy in my fingers (it is bad right now). So, my EPP quilt is on hold for a bit, unfortunately. 🙁

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Spoiler alert: there is whiskey in my bug mug. 🥃

[wildsaltair]

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[nanmo-wakaran]

strawberry shortcake bonbon

[yakuza-emulation]

Ran…

Anyways, I personally believe that Ran deserves a good cry after what most of the show puts her through. (And also beat up Shinichi a little, as a treat) :D

I’ve been wanting to draw more of these goobers and this was what came of that :)

Still slowly making our way through the plot, at the 270’s now, but we did recently watch the 6th movie. (Very good, it was an enjoyable watch)