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From: hsu@cvl.UUCP (Dave Hsu)
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Subject: Re: Re: Re: Which racial groups takes over the world.
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> I  believe more people speak Chinese than any other language but Chinese
> is written top to bottom right to  left.   How  is  this  discrimination
> against  lefties?  Anyway Stephen Mosher claims in Broken Earth that all
> Chinese are right-handed (at least in the PRC -- which seems odd  for  a
> communist country).
> 

Well, sort of.  Printed Chinese is pretty much always top to bottom/right
to left.  But most written correspondence is done left to right/top to
bottom (at least, this is my perception.)  And yes, just about everybody
who writes is righthanded, since there is an order and direction to the
'brushstrokes', which was VERY BLATANTLY designed by right-handed people.
You can't dig into paper with a brush.  Ergo, you can't write properly
left-handed.  Same principle as digging with a fountain pen.

(gosh, maybe that's why I dropped out of so many Chinese schools?)

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