Re: Interesting Brain/Language Nugget of Info

John Cowan wrote:
>
> Ed Heil scripsit:
>
> > The vast vast majority of vowelless scripts write right-to-left.
> >
> > The vast vast majority of scripts with vowels write left-to-right.
>
> I think the standard view, that this is essentially a coincidence,
> is correct.
Ah, but this theory is so fascinating, and coincidence is not! ;-)

> The alphabet developed at a certain time and place,
> and was not independently reinvented elsewhere (unlike syllabic and
> morpho-syllabic writing); it happened to descend from a vowelless
> script.
But if it's just coincidence, then why the switch with a voweled script
to LTR?  Actually, I think the smudge theory is the soundest.

Sally