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Re:Office of the President of Mongolia (top to bottom text o... by davchana on Friday April 21, 2023 @06:55AM (#35652016)
As a kid I thought if i write English in a mirrored way i.e. right to left, & mirrored, it would be my code script, nobody else can read it. People read it very easily.
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Re:Office of the President of Mongolia (top to bottom text o... by yakubin on Friday April 21, 2023 @07:40AM (#35652315)
That’s how Leonardo wrote, because he was left-handed, so it was more practical — it preventing smudging the writing with the wrist.

(Except Leonardo didn’t write in English.)

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Re:Office of the President of Mongolia (top to bottom text o... by lupire on Friday April 21, 2023 @09:44AM (#35653636)
Not just smudging. The entire mechanical act of writing (and everything) is optimized for left handed operation being the mirror image of right-handed operation, since left is mirror image of right.
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