Boustrophedon
Boustrophedon
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Are those people living in the eastern part of the world, and whose writing is from right to left, the only ones using boustrophedons in their letters ?
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RE: Boustrophedon
boustrophedon = ancient writing method: an ancient method of inscribing and writing in which lines are written alternately from right to left and from left to right
Techmaximus
RE: Boustrophedon
Boustrophedon = as the ox plows.
The word was used in a Gilligan's Island episode once.
If a writing is boustrophedon, do the individual letters get reversed in the reverse lines?
William
RE: Boustrophedon
Techmaximus
RE: Boustrophedon
In boustrophedon, do the individual letters get reversed when the lines change direction?
William