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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 3 of 5 1 2 3 4 5 Re: sinister dexterity #104164 05/26/03 12:05 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu OP Carpal Tunnel OP Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont boustrophedon that's the word! I'll have to pull out GEB by Hofstader again. ...meandereading® like of sort do I though sinister right, Rhuby! formerly known as etaoin... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Boustrophedonic #104165 05/26/03 01:06 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky (tsuwm, I wish you'd post that poem again!) I thought boustrophedonic was a strict alternation of left-right, right-left. That is not meandering. Note to musick: Honey, better start tooting your horn a little bit: websafe's flirting with eta right and left! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Boustrophedonic #104166 05/26/03 01:19 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu OP Carpal Tunnel OP Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont strict alternation of left-right, right-left. That is not meandering squash that nit! .corrected stand I I still like meandereading.® flirting with eta formerly known as etaoin... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Boustrophedonic #104167 05/26/03 01:26 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky I like meandereading®, too. And hey, you're fun to flirt with! (Boy, bet he REALLY blushes, now!) <eg> Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Boustrophedonic #104168 05/26/03 01:36 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu OP Carpal Tunnel OP Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont hey, would marching(the actual activity of marching, like a marching band, not the word(!)) be boustrophedonic? formerly known as etaoin... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: just plain interesting #104169 05/26/03 09:19 PM Joined: May 2003 Posts: 48 W websafe newbie websafe newbie W Joined: May 2003 Posts: 48 Dear Bingley: Are we talking about boustrophedon writing here? See http://pages.prodigy.net/gbonline/madridpg.htm Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: just plain interesting #104170 05/26/03 09:44 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 madridpg.htm the Borgia Codex is read in a BOUSTROPHEDONIC manner; that is, in a meandering pattern, typically from right to left like the Mixtec codices That doesn't make any sense. Jackie is right about boustrophedon. The metaphor is that of an ox plowing a field, starting in one direction and turning around at the end of a furrow and coming back in the other direction on the next furrow. Whether a marching band would do that would depend on a lot of things. Meandering would be the same thing as boustrophedon but not as tight. The metaphor there is of the Meander River, which flows in great curves across a plain turning back on itself, but not in a tight pattern that covers all the ground in the manner of an ox plowing a field. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: just plain interesting #104171 05/27/03 02:17 AM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass J, I assume (with no great trepidation in this case) that this is the poem of which you make mention: strange new words I relish like nectar or tonic I now know my line printer is boustrophedonic David P. Stern Science magazine Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: just plain interesting #104172 05/27/03 09:16 AM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu OP Carpal Tunnel OP Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Whether a marching band would do that actually, I was just thinking of the strict right, left, of their stepping... formerly known as etaoin... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: just plain interesting #104173 05/27/03 10:00 AM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 the strict right, left, of their stepping That doesn't define boustrophedon any more than does dropping little bundles along the way. 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