Why are most writing systems horizontal?
Why is it that most text in the world is written horizontally? It may be the case that horizontal movement is a tiny bit less costly than vertical movement; only two muscles are involved in horizontal eye movement, but vertical movement involves four. We do have to consider that, first of all, even though I wear glasses I'm not an eye expert, and secon…
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