Ar 13:02 -0800 2000-12-20, scríobh [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I have never heard of
boustrophedon used for vertical text.
Neither have I.
ME
At 08:13 PM 12/21/2000 -0800, Robin Cover wrote:
See Naveh and others on proto-Canaanite writing - "vertical
boustrophedon" is a common locution. Vertical alphabetic
apparently dropped out of use by about 1100 BCE.
To clarify, is Naveh talking about vertical text -- i.e. glyphs stacked one
on
Hello,
I studied Chinese in "horizontal, left to right mode" in Boston, but my impression is
that Chinese and Japanese newspapers are still mostly written in a vertical,
frequently right-to-left, boustrophedon. I know nothing whatsoever about Korean.
But, of course, I am not using the
Elain wrote:
Chinese and Japanese newspapers are still mostly written in a vertical,
frequently right-to-left, boustrophedon.
No, not exactly. They don't go "as the ox plows", and it is entirely
improper to utilize the term "boustrophedon" to refer to them. They are
written in columns,
On 12/20/2000 02:26:24 PM Elaine Keown wrote:
Literally 'boustrophedon' refers to how an ox plows a field.
And I think that has always been understood in the context of writing to
mean with successive lines running in alternate directions (regardless of
the direction in which lines follow one
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