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Originally Posted by Canuck_in_Japan
I get the vertical thing but why right to left? It's the same in Japan. When Chinese writing was invented were most people left handed or something?
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The explanation I once got was that when reading a scroll, it was more natural to let the dominant right hand do most of the work winding the scroll so the scroll wound from left to right. So a vertical format with the next line on the left of the current line was more (or less) natural.
Regards,
David