• veroxii@aussie.zone
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    2 months ago

    Not sure if true but I did hear somewhere that a big part of the Roman changes were to make carving letters into stone tablets and buildings easier.

    It certainly explains using more straight lines in eg M and N. But maybe the flip also makes it easier to carve if you’re chiseling right handed? I’m imagining how I’d chisel a K.

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      2 months ago

      I can only think that writing on parchment was more common.