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Re: Interesting Brain/Language Nugget of Info

From:FFlores <fflores@...>
Date:Friday, June 25, 1999, 13:31
Ed Heil <edheil@...> wrote:
/snipped interesting discussion/
> The vast vast majority of vowelless scripts write right-to-left. >=20 > The vast vast majority of scripts with vowels write left-to-right. >=20
/snip/
>=20 > Ornstein also mentions ideographic writing, which tends to go top to > bottom and right-to-left, and says it also tends towards a greater use > of right-brain contextual disambiguation.
What about a script with little vowels (like the marks in Hebrew and Arabic) that is written from top to bottom and from left to right? That's the _eqalar_ I use for Drasel=E9q. Does it violate every rule? :-( (The speakers are human, so I have no excuse!) --Pablo Flores