Here in belgium, in dutch, we also say other right/left, but since french is one of our languages, that could be the origin, on the other hand I dont really believe its language related: from inside a head your left eye is not the same as from outside the head (like face culling in OpenGL,...). Instead I would think its just a softening for pointing out a mistake through use of humor.
2011/2/9 Mathieu Bouchard matju@artengine.ca:
On Wed, 9 Feb 2011, András Murányi wrote:
It's not a brain damage, but a neurological thing.
But brain damage *is* a neurological thing :}
But the phenomenon of confusing left and right is so common, that in Québec, we routinely call «gauche» «l'autre droite» ("left" is also known as "the other right"), and call «droite» «l'autre gauche» ("right" is also known as "the other left"), whenever someone picks the wrong direction after being given an instruction.
(I don't know about the existence of such an expression anywhere else)
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