Re: Interesting Brain/Language Nugget of Info

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!

Anyway, because of this, Eviendadi"l has two righting systems, common,
which is runic and written rtl, and script which was developed to
replace common, and has among the upper classes, which, since it is
written, goes ltr.

S.E.
Matthew

Christophe Grandsire wrote:
>
> At 08:12 25/06/99 -0700, you wrote:
> >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.
> >
>
>         In fact, there was a long period of boustrophedon writing (one line RTL
> and the next one LTR, etc... very useful because you don't have to go back
> to the beginning of the line to continue the next line). So the filiation is:
> RTL->boustrophedon->LTR.
>
>         I wonder why is that.
>
> >Sally
> >
> >
>                                                         Christophe Grandsire
>                                                 |Sela Jemufan Atlinan C.G.
>
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