But it doesn't. In many languages the convention differs. Hebrew I believe is right
to left. Chinese is bottom to top back and forth. I guess Cotty would say we got our
way from the Romans <grin>.
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Mark Roberts wrote:
Graywolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Shel Belinkoff wrote:
A few months ago I was talking with a film maker, and she mentioned that
showing a subject moving from left to right on the screen indicates
movement towards something, such as when a ship leaves a port and heads out
to sea it will be shown on the screen as moving L to R. Right to Left
means that the subject is returning home, or to a point of origin. Some
time after that, while watching a special feature on a DVD, the director of
the film made the same comment. I wonder if that may in any way be related
to why we see, and, perhaps, generally prefer, L to R movement, and
subjects looking L to R, in many photographs? Might there be something
within us that more readily accepts that idea, and that's why film makers
have been using the concept as well?
Or it may be just that film producers have conditioned us that way?
Not film producers, book publishers - from Gutenberg* onward :)
In western cultures, reading from left to right is ingrained on most of
us from a very early age and it affects perception in a wide variety of
areas.
* This a joke: I realize that the left-to-right convention existed long
before that!
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