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Words with Elise: "Left"

The etymology of left is weak. That's right.

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In Leonard Shlain’s book, The Alphabet Versus the Goddess, he’s a neuroscientist, but he talks about the evolution of society as leaps in both the right and left hemisphere. And he remarks that we typically have deprecated the left side, and this shows up all over the place in our language, it used to be that we would train children out of be…

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