Re: Is white racism nec. all bad?

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In article <3n6st9$1q7@ixnews2.ix.netcom.com>,
Frank Forman <forman@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
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>How intensively has this last question been investigated? And I'm
>curious about *when* this laterality showed up in the archeological
>records. You might be interested to know that I once spoke with a
>German (now dead) whose job it was to translate patents from English
>into German. He told me that both Arabs and Japanese wrote up their
>patents in English and that he quite frequently found that the diagrams
>would point to the left while the texts said right, and vice versa.

Don't know about Japanese, but Arabic is written right to left;
English is written left to right : confusion is natural.

I think many ancients wrote lines alternating left to right and right
to left.

-arun gupta

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