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If you're left-handed, handwriting proceeds best by mirroring what the right hand would do (ie. write 'backwards'). It's far more natural. Alright, so others wi
by fractallyte 14y ago
If you're left-handed, handwriting proceeds best by mirroring what the right hand would do (ie. write 'backwards'). It's far more natural. Alright, so others will need a mirror to read it - but that ought to be society's problem, not yours! ("Equal rights for the Sinisterous!")
In a gradual shift toward ambidexterity, I've found that questioning society's insistence on 'right-ness' can be enlightening...
- lifeisstillgood 14y agoPresumably script that proceeds right to left (and even upwards) was originated by left handed scribes edit spellchecker : left handed scribes became left handed scones. The history of heavy baked goods in the development of human civilisation has been scandalously neglected by a blinkered academic community.
- ithkuil 14y agoI remember I read somewhere about the fact that right-to-left script was preferred when carving script on stone. as right hand people supposedly prefer to hold the hammer on their right hand. I'm not sure if that's really the cause. Furthermore in many ancient scripts the direction was quite unimportant, in some cases even reverting in each line (Boustrophedon). Interesting take on direction of writing: http://shkrobius.livejournal.com/292987.html http://shkrobius.livejournal.com/292987.html