36.769, Qs: do right to left scripts invert measuring scales?

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LINGUIST List: Vol-36-769. Tue Mar 04 2025. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 36.769, Qs: do right to left scripts invert measuring scales?

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Date: 04-Mar-2025
From: Alice ter Meulen [alicetermeulen at gmail.com]
Subject: do right to left scripts invert measuring scales?


Just a naive query but does anyone know whether languages that are
written right to left also invert measuring scales, so that least
value is rightmost snd value is increasing leftward on the scale?
Idem but for mirror image writing like da Vinci’s, did he mirror
scales too?
Thanks for responding!😘

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     General Linguistics
                     Lexicography
                     Neurolinguistics
                     Writing Systems

Language Family(ies): Arabic



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