Re: Interesting Brain/Language Nugget of Info

On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Christophe Grandsire wrote:

> At 11:31 25/06/99 -0400, you wrote:
> >I was taught that langs that were originally written went ltr, so your
> >right hand would not smear what you had already written.  When you carve
> >stone, you end up pushing the chisel left (if you are righty) and so
> >langs originally written on stone go rtl.
> >
> >Poor me, I'm a lefty!
> >
>
>         Don't say that, be proud of being lefty! :) (yes, I am also left-handed).
>
So am I - and the only script that really gave me trouble (I've learnt
Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Devanagari, U-chan, Arabic, Burmese and Hanzi),
was Chinese. Not that my characters came out looking wrong, but when I
was actively learning the characters, I went through about 1 3/4th of
a fountain pen a year - just because of a wrong kind of pressure.

Boudewijn Rempt  | http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt