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Men’s Philadelphia Eagles Cream Super Bowl LIX Champions Strong Slant Tri-Blend T-Shirt #SuperBowlLIXChampions #PhiladelphiaEagles #FootballFanTShirt #MensEaglesTShirt
I think it is if your are a lefty, you slant the paper to the right, instead of the left, so if you are made to slant to the left, then you sort of go in overhanded. Old 1970’s photo I found of him kind of shows this:
I don't know what about being a leftie compels us to hold the pencil like that but yeah I remember being told to slant the paper too. I also wonder if it has something to do with how lefties push the pen across the pa…
At home with Slant Can. Howe Gelb's latest incarnation. Improvised country blues, maybe? howegelb.bandcamp.com/album/volume-1
This is minor by comparison, but reflects the same mentality: my dad had a very odd sort of overhand writing style, because when he was learning (early 1940’s) they made everyone slant the paper the same way, and he…
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A sloped surface or line.
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A slope; an incline, inclination.
The house was built on a bit of a slant and was never quite level.
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(mining) A run: a heading driven diagonally between the dip and strike of a coal seam.
It was a well written article, but it had a bit of a leftist slant.
“Men’s Philadelphia Eagles Cream Super Bowl LIX Champions Strong Slant Tri-Blend T-Shirt #SuperBowlLIXChampions #PhiladelphiaEagles #FootballFanTShirt #MensEaglesTShirt”
— Bluesky· May 2026“I think it is if your are a lefty, you slant the paper to the right, instead of the left, so if you are made to slant to the left, then you sort of go in overhanded. Old 1970’s photo I found of him kind of shows this:”
— Bluesky· May 2026“I don't know what about being a leftie compels us to hold the pencil like that but yeah I remember being told to slant the paper too. I also wonder if it has something to do with how lefties push the pen across the page while righties pull it”
— Bluesky· May 2026“At home with Slant Can. Howe Gelb's latest incarnation. Improvised country blues, maybe? howegelb.bandcamp.com/album/volume-1”
— Bluesky· May 2026“This is minor by comparison, but reflects the same mentality: my dad had a very odd sort of overhand writing style, because when he was learning (early 1940’s) they made everyone slant the paper the same way, and he was left-handed.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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