Re: Interesting Brain/Language Nugget of Info

tb0pwd1@corn.cso.niu.edu writes:
>The ink vs. chisel story sounds nice, and all, but it hardly holds up.
>Runic alphabets, designed to be carved into stone, are usually (not
>exclusively) read LTR. And hebrew, as far as I know, has been written with
>ink for a loooong time.  (And, incidently, it isn't really all *that* hard
>to write RTL -- what's hard is making the switch after an hour and a half
>of Hebrew class back to writing "backwards.")

I read somewhere that Arabic must have been practically always written
with a brush because of the cursiveness of the letters (as opposed to
hebrew which is suited more to pens).




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