Wednesday, December 29, 2010

The disposable academic

http://www.economist.com/node/17723223

Why did writing systems evolve from RTL ot LTR?

"Many languages that existed before the invention of ink were written right to left since this is the more natural for right handed people to hold a chisel in the left hand and the hammer in the right. After ink became the main method of writing, writing from left to right became preferable since it avoided smudging the ink."......Wikipedia
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-to-left)