(02-15-2023, 07:36 PM)Spoilsport Wrote:(02-14-2023, 09:14 AM)Norgarth Wrote:
Additional: When written out, you went left to right, then on the next line, right to left, repeat. I tried transliterating some text once, but the switch made my brain woozy.
That's called "boustrophedon", which IIRC means something like "like a plow", for the way a farmer would first go one way then the other when plowing his field. A surprising number of ancient languages did that.
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I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh, Clark Kent, Mary Sue, DJ Croft, Skysaber. I have been
called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the sun grows dim and cold....