Re: Interesting Brain/Language Nugget of Info

At 11:31 25/06/99 -0400, you wrote:
>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!
>
        Don't say that, be proud of being lefty! :) (yes, I am also left-handed).

>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.
>>
>> "Reality is just another point of view."
>>
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>
>
                                                        Christophe Grandsire
                                                |Sela Jemufan Atlinan C.G.

"Reality is just another point of view."

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