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Old 01-15-2010, 06:16 PM   #39
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Originally Posted by Sheepless View Post
My favourite fact about Japanese writing: there exists tategaki which is one character high, which means it's effectively horizontal, right-to-left. You'll see this on the side of trucks, for example: left-to-right on the left side of the truck, and right-to-left on the right side. The Japanese have to be insanely flexible in their reading ability!
That is the same with Chinese in Taiwan. Signs are completely random left to right or right to left. Classical texts are in columns, starting top right. And most books and magazines are still written that way, "starting from the back cover". But in China they have standardized everything left to right in horizontal lines.
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