From: "Bob W"
[...]
> > Although I've been half-joking here, you did point out an interesting
and
> serious notion. Thanks.
>
> My initial comment was only half joking too. I haven't done any real
research
> on compositional flow, whether they differ when people are used to reading
> left to write, right to left, or are done by people who basically don't
read.
Left - right, right - left are not the only options. Some scripts go up and
down, some even go boustrophedonically. I knew someone once who was doing a
PhD in Japanese aesthetics, his theory being that such things as a
preference for the golden rectangle are not human universals. No idea
whether he finished it or not, or what became of him. Probably locked in an
attic somewhere chewing carpets.
One of my classmates is an native-born Israeli and he was explaining the
other day that Hebrew & Arabic are derived from the same proto-language
and read right-to-left because that's the best way to carve letters into
stone tablets.
European languages, including English, are written left-to-right so the
copyist's sleeve won't smudge the still wet ink.
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