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> speed up reading as the eyeballs don't need to jump across the page to start a new line :-) Reminds me of dot matrix printers... some could write lines from
by ale42 4y ago
> speed up reading as the eyeballs don't need to jump across the page to start a new line :-)
Reminds me of dot matrix printers... some could write lines from right to left without needing to go back to start of line, thus alternating directions.
- davchana 4y agoAs a kid I thought if i write English in a mirrored way i.e. right to left, & mirrored, it would be my code script, nobody else can read it. People read it very easily.
- yakubin 4y agoThat’s how Leonardo wrote, because he was left-handed, so it was more practical — it preventing smudging the writing with the wrist. (Except Leonardo didn’t write in English.)
- lupire 4y agoNot just smudging. The entire mechanical act of writing (and everything) is optimized for left handed operation being the mirror image of right-handed operation, since left is mirror image of right.
- orangewindies 4y agoThat was usually in draft mode, since the left-to-right and right-to-left lines wouldn't quite line up perfectly.