On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 23:33:02 -0400, Weiben Wang <weibenw@...> wrote:

> I'm usually a lurker here, but as an American born and educated, fluent,
> but semi-literate, native speaker of Chinese, this question goes to my
> own personal experiences, so I thought I'd share.

Much appreciated! Thank you, kindly.

Indeed, left-handed writing of Chinese does have the problems I expected
(and some more); of course, I should have thought of the brush. It makes
a lot of sense that in handwriting and calligraphy, correct stroke order
is utterly essential. I hadn't thought of that. (Have made some progress;
CJK calligraphy used to look totally confusing, but after studying the
appearance of CJK characters for some years, I think I can sometimes see
what the "formal" printed character might look like.)

In addition to coping with cultural bias, when required to write with the
right hand, it must be extra hard to make one's writing look good.

In this instance, I hadn't yet seen* Marco's response, and the quote was
most helpful.
*I subscribe to too many lists, and get more incoming e-mail than I can
manage.

Best regards, indeed.

--
Nicholas Bodley /*|*\ Waltham, Mass. (Not "MA")
The curious hermit -- autodidact and polymath