• Jo Miran
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    361 year ago

    I’m assuming this needs to be read right to left, correct?

    • @nero
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      111 year ago

      Yes

      • @SkyeHarith
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        41 year ago

        Ok help me out here. What on earth is boustrophedon supposed to be? It sounds like a biblical monster lol

        • Erika2rsis
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          41 year ago

          Boustrophedon (boost-ruh-FEE-d’n, meaning “as the ox turns”) is a writing style mainly used in a number of ancient civilizations, where the direction of reading changes with each and every line. So, say, the first line you read left-to-right, and then the second line you read right-to-left, and then the third line is left-to-right again, and so on. This way of writing had several benefits for ancient peoples even though nowadays writing backwards every other line sounds crazy to us.

          I don’t know how it would actually work to read comic book panels and speech bubbles in a boustrophedon order, so it was really just a dumb joke.

          • @SkyeHarith
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            41 year ago

            Ooh that’s so interesting!

            I’ve heard that in cultures where writing evolved from stone carving, the writing direction preferred the right to left direction since the chisel could be held more comfortably. Similarly in cultures where writing evolved from leaf or cow hide type manuscripts left to right was the norm.

            I wonder what the evolutionary path would be for a boustrophedonous system.

  • Franzia
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    301 year ago

    Oh okay so in order to wake up one day as a girl I need to have the right outfit already? Noted. Will go shopping.

    • @[email protected]
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      91 year ago

      Yeah but how would you know what size clothes to get in advance? They must be magic clothes. I guess what I’m saying is SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY.

      • Franzia
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        51 year ago

        Okay :3 im gomna soend your money on clothes :3

  • @Modern_medicine_isnt
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    161 year ago

    how many of us, if we woke up like that, wouldn’t leave the house unless it was to buy a big mirror.

  • @Akagigahara
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    101 year ago

    Why must you tease me like this?! (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻

  • @[email protected]
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    11 year ago

    saw this exact post a month ago you’ve seem to come from Reddit quite late judging from reposts