Best Way to Write Left-Handed September 20, 2006
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It is painful to watch left-handers try to write left-to-right. If their writing implement bleeds, then their hand is constantly inclined to smudge what they have just written. And many end up contorting their hand through an unergonomic 90-degree bend to facilitate the left-right motion that comes naturally to the right hand.
We should instead encourage left-handed writing to be performed from right to left. In order to facilitate this with left-to-right languages, we should teach left-handers “specular writing,” i.e., mirror-reversed writing. Their script can then be read either in a mirror, through the back of the sheet on which they have written (e.g., holding it in front of a light source), or by scanning it into a computer and mirror-reversing it. It worked for Leonardo DaVinci.
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