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Don't start me off on this one. Oh, you have....I'll finish it off for you then.
Look, in the middle-ages, people like you (right-handed,dextrous) used to burn people like me because we were 'sinister' - that's a Latin word. Look in any thesaurus or dictionary for the words 'left-handed' or 'left handed' and you'll think that anybody who writes with the 'wrong' hand is, basically, evil. Here's a proper description, from http://www.bartleby.com/ :

But here's a little precis, that shows you what right-handed people think of lefties, from the very excellent encarta.msn.com
For much of human history, and all around the world, left-handers often have been left out in the cold. And it's not just because they're stuck using right-handed scissors and desks at school. Many people have actually believed that lefties were sinister. (That's right: evil.) The very word, sinister, comes from the Latin word for left, which was considered to be--at best--unlucky.
For example, the left side of the Buddhist yin and yang symbol, yin, represents darkness, while the right represents light and life.
The left side gets distinctly bad treatment in the Bible, where, in one famous passage, sheep are at the right hand of Jesus and goats are on the left. While the sheep go to heaven, the goats are destined for eternal barbecue. (If you want to remember this image forever, listen to the Cake song "Sheep Go to Heaven." It might never leave your head; it's that catchy.)
The Maoris of New Zealand thought that if you had a tremor while you were sleeping, a ghost had seized your spirit. The Maoris did their best to find out which side of the body had been jiggled. If it was the right, good luck was coming. But a tremor on the left meant bad luck, and possibly death.

For a proper, well-researched and erudite explanation of left-handedness, look at  Lorin's left handed site , or, if you want to FEEL what it's like to be left-handed, have a look at http://www.winternet.com/~joelr/leftles.html . Or, stick 'left-handed' into   Google, and see everything from the wise to the absolutely tonto....

By the way, here's 98 famous sinistrals, as recognised by The Guarniad: