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This is the true unpopular opinion of this post
I don't find it particularly difficult to use my left hand to transfer food from a plate to my mouth hole with a fork... No need to swap, if that's a problem. >

I don’t swap either… but the rest of my family dose it so idk just don’t make a mess I guess >

Knives are sharp. I feel it makes sense to have as much control over the instrument as possible. >

Forks are pointy. The knife stays within the plate. What are you gonna cut? The other hand?
Id say the chance of hitting your eye with the fork is higher than cutting yourself. >

Nah you’re just slow and need supervision >

So are you if you cant help cutting people >

How else would I play knifey spoony? >

How do you play that? >

I feel like it takes more far more dexterity to do the cutting with the knife than stabbing with the fork. >

i disagree. if you're holding for example a steak with your fork, all you have to do is rub your knife in one dimension. however, to stab some pasta or roll it up, that requires true skill >

Why do you have a knife in your hand while twirling pasta? >

How else do you keep people from taking your pasta? >

Stabbing spoon.
In the left hand >

This is the only correct answer >

Your knife should be in whatever hand you want it to be in. If the food gets in your mouth without making a mess, you're doing it right. >

This whole thread is bizarre to me. As a left handed person I've always held the fork with my left and knife with the right, no swapping. Probably just because that's how tables are set.
I do use a chef's knife with my left hand when cooking though, I've never really thought much about it >

Why do people have to swap hands and put their knife down? >

Never understood this one. Just move fork to mouth dummy. >

The knife goes in the dominant hand so your able to stab your mother in law. >

Shit I really wasn't expecting to laugh, good one >

I thought people used whatever hand is dominant for knives >

Nope. I’m right handed but hold the knife in my left hand. My kids are the same. >

Lefty here... knife in the right, fork in the left. >

Same, went through a lot of life never knowing people were passing their cutlery back and forth between hands. Made me deeply question why place settings have forks on the left. >

I've always done this. I agree, it's easier and feels more natural to me. But I've been called weird or lefthanded a lot because of it. >

In cutlery etiquette, swapping is called American Style. OP is talking about Continental/European Style.
It’s all pretty well established etiquette, so it’s not really an opinion or unpopular. >

I’m American and I’ve never heard of swapping in my life. Until OP (who’s Australian) mentioned it >

Clearly you didn’t go to finishing school. >

all these rules related to etiquette are so dumb >

This, ever so much. If the only reason people can give for following some particular rule of etiquette is some variation of “that’s just how you’re supposed to act”, I’m certainly not going to feel any obligation to follow it.