Universals in text directionality?
English text is read and written in lines. In each line, the text goes left to right, and the lines themselves go from top to bottom. Simple enough. But when we look at other writing systems, we see that left-to-right (A in the diagram below) isn't the only possibility. How else do humans write?
Many languages are written right-to-left, such as Arabic an…
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