Tomorrow, a 100 year old mysterious package will be opened in a museum in Norway

Re:Tomorrow, a 100 year old mysterious package will be opene... by fractallyte on Friday August 24, 2012 @04:17AM (#4426728)

If you're left-handed, handwriting proceeds best by mirroring what the right hand would do (ie. write 'backwards'). It's far more natural. Alright, so others will need a mirror to read it - but that ought to be society's problem, not yours! ("Equal rights for the Sinisterous!")

In a gradual shift toward ambidexterity, I've found that questioning society's insistence on 'right-ness' can be enlightening...

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Re:Tomorrow, a 100 year old mysterious package will be opene... by lifeisstillgood on Friday August 24, 2012 @05:35AM (#4426893)

Presumably script that proceeds right to left (and even upwards) was originated by left handed scribes

edit spellchecker : left handed scribes became left handed scones. The history of heavy baked goods in the development of human civilisation has been scandalously neglected by a blinkered academic community.

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Re:Tomorrow, a 100 year old mysterious package will be opene... by ithkuil on Friday August 24, 2012 @07:05AM (#4427057)

I remember I read somewhere about the fact that right-to-left script was preferred when carving script on stone. as right hand people supposedly prefer to hold the hammer on their right hand.

I'm not sure if that's really the cause. Furthermore in many ancient scripts the direction was quite unimportant, in some cases even reverting in each line (Boustrophedon).

Interesting take on direction of writing: http://shkrobius.livejournal.com/292987.html

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