Re: languages in reverse

On 6/19/07, MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com <MorphemeAddict@...> wrote:
> In a message dated 6/18/2007 1:48:49 PM Central Daylight Time,
> philip.newton@GMAIL.COM writes:
>
> > On 6/18/07, MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com <MorphemeAddict@...>
> > wrote:
> > > Then mirror-writing hsilgnE would produce forward English, except for being
> > > right-justified instead of left-justified.
> >
> > Not true if a sentence spans more than one line.
>
> How is it not true then?  hsilgnE is right-justified in all cases where
> English is left-justified, which is virtually always.
See the example you quoted.

For example,

> be reversed ,too ,but there's a limit to what I can do easilY
>                         .all the letters should
The English sentence starts with "all the letters...", i.e. on the
second line of the hsilgnE, while the hsilgnE starts with "...can do
easilY", i.e. on the first line.

Hence merely left-justifying the mirror-writing hsilgnE will not
always yield correct English, since the sentence is _not_

"be reversed, too, ... can do easily all the letters should".

It would maybe work if the mirror-writing hsilgnE were written not
only from right to left but also from bottom to top.

Cheers,
--
Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>

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