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Originally posted by Poloboy
I'm left handed, and I've always found cursive extremely difficult. I think it's much easier to write flowing strokes by drawing a pen behind your hand (i.e. right handed people) than by having to follow the writing with your hand (i.e. LH people). And let's not even get into smudging :P
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This is exactly why our culture reads from left to right. Because we wrote that way! Why? Because we didn't want to smudge the ink before it dried while writing the rest of the sentence. Because the vast majority of us are right handed, we were concerned about smudging this ink with our
right hand.
If most of us were left handed, we would probably be reading and writing right to left, for the same reasons...