Re: Interesting Brain/Language Nugget of Info
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, June 25, 1999, 22:24 |
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John Cowan wrote:
> Right-handed writing
> with a pen, though, is more easily done LTR, so that the letters are
> not hidden or smudged.
Right, but Arabic and Hebrew, to use two examples of RTL, have long used
ink, forcing Arabs and Israelis to kind of "twist" their hand to prevent
smudging. So, surely, switching to LTR would be extremely useful for
them. So, why haven't they? The left-brain/right-brain theory makes
sense to me.
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