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Conlangery #50: The Technology of Literacy

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Writing From Bottom to Top Is a Cognitive Terrible Metaphor

Only one script that I know of actually goes from bottom to top Um vertical obviously there's other practical concerns like obviously you're going to have your hand in the ink all the time when you're doing that but um I'm just curious as that and we probably can't answer that because it's a little bit too Sort of we don't have any way to have evidence of it But I just thought that might be a thought Yeah writing from top to bottom seems like a cognitive terrible metaphor. It just doesn't make sense. Why would you do that things fall down not up? It's a very Unnatural movement.

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