RE: VMs: Re: Re: humanist [was; Some thoughts etc]

["Mark Winn" <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: DANA SCOTT
> Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2004 2:34 PM
> To: vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: VMs: Re: Re: humanist [was; Some thoughts etc]
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> As far as I can tell, the advantage for a left hander writing
> right to left
> is that what is written can be seen (not hidden by the writing
> implement) as
> it is being written.

Or smudging the ink with your hand.
It also has to do with angles. If you hold a quill pen in your left hand and
write left-to-right, you're more likely to 'stick' the quill into the paper
and break it. Whereas with your right hand you draw the point across the
paper.


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