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It's mixed up, because when he is moving in the direction
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that text is read and written,
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left to right,he's using his left hand,
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and the correlative of that left handedness of his relation
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to language is in the dialect.
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He doesn't speak correctly in Fern Elston's house
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no matter how hard she tries to teach him.
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So, he is clumsy, not only in spilling pepper on the table,
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but also in not being able to speak proper English.
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But the other thing about that movement is that when it goes left
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to right pepper spills on the table.
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This is an image of ink flowing out of a pen