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Anagnosology (READING) with Adrian Johns

Ologies with Alie Ward

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Different Writing Directions and Styles

Words like 'booster feed' come from Greek, meaning 'ox turn,' where the letters are in backward order. English is written left to right, top to bottom, known as synstradextal. Languages like Arabic are written right to left. Some languages are read in vertical rows, like Mongolian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.

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