Why do semites write backwards?
Why do Westerners write backwards?
>>522713
Assuming that most people are right handed, writing left to right makes sense, it's the natural and easier motion for a guy holding a pen.
back in the day there was no standard direction to write, it was common for people to write both ways, even on the same paper, alternating on each line. The west eventually settled on left to right, while the east did the opposite.
>>522718
no it doesnt, you've just been trained that way
>>522743
It literally does. It is much easier for the arm to move outwards, away from the body, than it does inwards, towards the body. This is biology, how your joints are hinged, it has nothing to do with "training".
>>522744
nope
>>522744
>be Semite
>invent writing system, decide randomly on a convention for the direction of writing
>some sperglord shows up and lectures me about how my choice isn't ergonomic
>have him killed and fed to the camels for the entertainment of my fellow tribesmen.
>>522777
Take your right hand, extend it forward, shoulder width, lock your elbow.
Now, bending only at the shoulder, try to move your arm to the left, inward towards your body. Then, return it to straight forward, and try to bend it right, away from your body.
If you can't go significantly further away than towards, you have a serious condition and should see a doctor immediately.
>>522786
See, this makes a good deal of sense.
But then why did the Romans also write left to right, when they started by chiseling things on stone too.
>>522743
If you're right handed and you write from right to left, your hand will smudge the ink
>>522812
Checkmate, commies.
>>522803
Romans began writing in Boustrophedon
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boustrophedon
>>522803
Boustrophedon my friend
It's a form of writing where one line is right to left and the next is left to right, it makes it easier for the scribe to write
The Greeks used to do this, and eventually settled into writing left to right for whatever reason during the classical period, and the Romans took after them
We're not too sure why
>>522812
Not really, you could just raise your hand a bit
I'm not sure where this meme comes from since I write with my hand slightly above the page anyway
>>522709
to match how they think.
>>522727
>back in the day
You're on a history board.
I'm a Semite and I literally can't write in my native tongue, especially not in cursive. I have terrible penmanship and it feels awkward as hell. European languages feel much better.
>>522713
Why do Westerners do the sign of the Cross backwards? Is it the same reason why Protestants don't do it at all?
>>523234
Oops forgot my trip.
>>522744
>/his/ discusses anatomy
>>523231
Because you never trained yourself to do so
An Arab writing latin for the first time would be horrendous, just like a European writing in Arabic for the first time
You just need to practice and eventually it flows
>>523254
Biological determinism is a thing.
>>523273
I thought most Europeans already write Arabic.
>>522727
>while the east did the opposite.
wow what a stupid generalized statement.
East writes downward, right to left and left to right depending on the region you uneducated communist twat.
>>522709
because they were massive weebs
Semites are Westerners. In East Asia we use to write right to left because we read books right to left.
>>522744
/thread
>>522713
/thread
>>522709
They write to left because they has Levits ancestors. Guess, people of left-handers outcast from other tribes as devilish people, and was maded they own tribe.
>>527392
See >>>509405 and enjoy your butthurt.
You are the weakest link, goodbye.
>>522713
fuck your relativism Shlomo
>>522812
but they wrote making wedges in clay tablets.
