Re: Multiple Directions (was: Re: Coptic/Greek (Re: Phoenician))

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Fri May 14 2004 - 13:37:41 CDT

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    At 14:25 -0400 2004-05-14, jcowan@reutershealth.com wrote:
    >Michael Everson scripsit:
    >> You can't play around with Ogham directionality like that. Reversing
    >> it makes it read completely differently! The first example reads
    >> INGACLU; the second reads ULCAGNI.
    >
    >Which is as much to say that R2L Ogham is illegible. But is T2B Ogham
    >necessarily illegible, especially if the glyphs were to be reversed?

    Try it and see. ;-) 

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