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xxx Date: Tue May 25, 1999 8:24 pm Subject: Re: New SignWriter Features? | |
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I tend to agree. I too am not a fluent reader of Hebrew, yet when I see Hebrew letters I always start reading from right to left as well. Cheryl Zapien Don & Theresa G wrote: > -----Original Message----- > > > 7. Might it be possible for columns to print from right to left > instead > >of left to right? This might seem strange to many, but it's the natural > way > >of writing Chinese characters when "in column mode" (as it were). When > >Chinese people look at things written in columns, their eyes naturally > start > >reading at the top right side, and SW starts on the on the other ("the > >wrong") side. > > Wayne: > > This is not necessarily a problem. I'm hardly a fluent reader of Hebrew, > but my training from Hebrew school has rubbed off enough that when I do > attempt to decipher Hebrew, I automatically start on the right side, even > though I'm a native (and extremely fluent) reader of English, where I always > start on the left side. I suspect that Chinese SW readers, once taught that > they have to switch scanning to the "wrong" side, will start automatically > doing so and it will become second nature for them. They might think it > "weird" at first (like I did with Hebrew) but later they will think nothing > of it for this particular writing system. > > --Donald Grushkin |
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