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Originally Posted by Sheepless
My favourite fact about Japanese writing: there exists tategaki which is one character high, which means it's effectively horizontal, right-to-left. ... The Japanese have to be insanely flexible in their reading ability!
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Very true! It would drive me crazy trying to read English with the letters in any other order than left-to-right, but in Japan they seem to read and write any which way. (Except I've never seen bottom-to-top; it wouldn't surprise me, though...)