Suppose that you were sitting down at this table. The napkins are in front of you, which napkin would you take? The one on your ‘left’? Or the one on your ‘right’? The one on your left side? Or the one on your right side? Usually you would take the one on your left side. That is ‘correct’ too...
i think this might be one of araki forgot, in the beginning of the story the people in his tribe were all calling him sandman and now araki is saying that the americans made a mistake thinking that his name was sandman and that his tribe called him sound man and that was his true name