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Joey Ramone era Canhoto…

Posted By jhall_3rd on August 10th, 2010

Destro ou Canhoto?

The doctor asked me if I was ‘destro ou, canhoto’. I had no idea what he was talking about. Five years in Brazil and I don’t know how to say that I’m ‘right-handed’. I just assumed it would be something like : ‘uso mão direito’ or, ‘escrevo com lado direito’.

Not even close.

So, worth remembering these two new vocab words: Destro = right-handed / Canhoto = left-handed

The only way to remember this is that “dextrous” means skill with the hand. Most people are right-handed so, there must be some latin root somewhere that spawned this word. Let’s take these out for ride in a sentence or three…

> Ela é destro.

> Seu filho é destrocanhoto ou ambidestro?

> Os pais que fizeram seus filhos canhotos lutarem para usar a mão direita podem estar arrependidos agora.

joey ramone is left handed

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