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Old 01-15-2010, 07:04 PM   #40
Brainiac 5
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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. ... The Japanese have to be insanely flexible in their reading ability!
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...)
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