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It's called the RIGHT hand for a reason (lemmy.world)
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[–] rauls4@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

In Spanish the right and left are called diestra (dexterous) and siniestra (sinister) respectively.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

That's Italian, in Spanish it's Derecha and izquierda.

[–] RVGamer06@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

That would be "destra" and "sinistra", actually. "diestra" sounds like something made up by an American LARPing as an Italian

[–] rauls4@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Never heard a Spanish person use diestra or siniestra on a day to day basis. I assume that's like destra e sinistra in Portuguese (my native language) that are very rare synonyms used when someone wants to sound pretentious.

[–] rauls4@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago

I never said it was common.

[–] teft@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I know them as derecha e izquierda for the directions and I'm bilingual in spanish.

Diestro is right handed but for left handed I hear zurdo more. I don't think I've ever heard someone use siniestro.