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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was a sign of the devil. Hence the term sinister.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I remember that being a plot point in a Power Rangers episode. :P The confusion between "sinister" and "left". That's how I first learned it meant the same.

From your link, I find it super interesting that "dexter" is the opposite. In Spanish, there's the word "diestro", which I bet comes from that.