Foreword

We are going to study the direction of the writings which in Europe is always from left to right, or from the inside of the writer to the outside.

There are many other writings going from the outside (the righthand side) to the inside (the lefthand side) which can be found in every day life and are widely used in the world.

In practice those who write from right to left have no difficulty for doing so or at least if they have difficulty they do not say so and under certain circumstances it would be appropriate to see how they manage. For what reason ? Because for the lefthanders writing by the lefthand by means of the Latin alphabet there are problems more or less artificial caused by the European practice of such writing.

In fact there are no real problems but in the school they do not understand why a child writes as in a mirror with the left hand (from right to left) to follow the outside movement made by the righthanders or refuses to write with the left hand toward the inside precisely because he wants to do as the others do, i.e. writing toward the outside.

However, the Arabs for instance write from right to left to the inside, with the righthand if they are righthanded, this being equivalent for the lefthanders to writing with the lefthand from left to right to the inside.

Any confusion occurs because the reason for writing in the one or the other direction of writing is not known (is it only a random practice ?) and still less explained.

The following tries to show what the direction of the writings means.