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==Direction== | ==Direction== | ||
Everyone knows you read from left to right, up to down, as I call it LRUD. So thats natural isn't it? | |||
Well no, you can do it in a total of 4 ways, LRUD, RLUD (Right to left, Up and downward), UDLR (up and downward first, then left to right, reading in columns rather than rows) and Lastely UDRL. You might think that it could possbibly be down and up, while it is a concievable thing no script system has ever utilized it. | |||
Examples | |||
*LRUD, Latin | |||
*RLUD, Arabic or hebrew | |||
*UDRL, Japanese | |||
*UDLR, Mongolian | |||
the direction in which it is written forms heavily how the symbols are written to minimize effort in that direction. so the direction does matter. | |||
==Traits== | ==Traits== | ||