>>>This was sparked by one of Dragan's comments in a different thread.
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>>>>Speaking of which... the Serbian expression for "he's all thumbs" is "has two left hands" (or "two left legs" for a soccer player). How's it in other languages?
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>>>Being both left-handed and fascinated with language, it has always intrigued me that many languages use the word "right" to mean both a direction and "correct." There is also some negative implication to the words for "left" (sinister, gauche, etc.) in addition to the idiomatic expressions such as the ones you quoted above.
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>>>English is rife with things like this. I'm wondering how true this is in other languages.
>>>I'd love it if the others in our international community could chime in with their knowledge.
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>>And don't forget the POSITIVE implications in the use of "Dextrous", dexterity, ambidextrous.
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>>It's interesting that French also use right in nearly all the same senses as we do:
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>>"Right on" (as in straight ahead) - tout droit
>>"My right" (as in entitlements) - mon droit
>>"the right" (side) - La droite
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>>but strangely not "you are right" - vous avez raison.
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>>Where I come from we also refer to "left-handed" as "cack-handed" (which is also used to describe a clumsy person/attempt)
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>>and protestants refer to Catholics as "Left footers" (someone explained the etymology of this recently but I've fotrgotten it :-), but I've also heard the expression "he digs with the other foot".
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>Is "you are right" in the French vocabulary at all?

Well, no more than "there is ..." (as in "there exists") is (they say "il y a" which is like "it has there").
"Vous avez raison" serves - literally "you have reason"