Re: OT Re: some spoilers: language and THE DAVINCI CODE

Quoting Roger Mills <romilly@...>:

> Sally Caves wrote:
> > > Gaaaah.  At least say "Cryptoquotes".  Solving Jumbles can be a
> useful
> > skill
> > > in the cryptographers toolkit, but it is not anywhere near what
> they
> > > actually do most of the time.
> >
> > And here I thought I had a second career possibility. :)
> >
> Just remember the magic words:  etaoin shrdlu
>
> >  The only clever thing about the backwards writing is that it was
> > slanted to the right, to make it look like left to right cursive.
>
> I can write (cursive) backward quite easily with my left hand, than with
> my
> (dominant) right, and it's reasonably  legible . I've often wondered
> whether
> Leonardo did his backwards writing with his non-dominant hand??? Does
> the
> book happen to mention that?
I'm told the guy was left-handed, and found writing RTL simpler than LTR
because of that.

                                                             Andreas