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And the great thing about Hebrew is ... (Score:2)
... that to a non-speaker it looks valid upside-down, too! In fact, it looks better, because the horizontal lines at the top of each character look like a baseline.
I used Menahem Mansoor's Biblical Hebrew Step by Step, which had extensive exercises in the first lesson to help you learn to distinguish similar characters. Nearly every letter was paired with nearly every other letter, it seemed.
It's not too bad, once you get the hang of it, though. I'm completely out of practice but can still distinguish the characters.
J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers
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Three cheers for scripts! (Score:1)
I can imagine that non-speakers (or more to the point, illiterates) of quite a few scripts could have trouble knowing the correct orientatio