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If niching else, it seems like changing directions would make it pretty clear which way a given line is meant to be read (unless it contains a hugely unlikely p
by rflrob 16y ago
If niching else, it seems like changing directions would make it pretty clear which way a given line is meant to be read (unless it contains a hugely unlikely proportion of mirror-symmetric characters like A, O, M, &c.)
- mfukar 16y agoI can see that being true; most ancient Greek alphabet letters present a certain symmetry. What I've found more interesting is that there are variations of this kind of writing where the first line/verse was written from right to left, where the next two lines/verses were written from left to right.
- mahmud 16y agoIndeed, because otherwise, erasing a line, specially from the top or bottom would have caused major confusion and wholesale change in meaning.