system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
If the majority of people are right handed, why do some of the earlier languages such as Arabic and Hebrew write from right to left?
gpt
The "decision" to write from right to left vs. left to right was really only made a few times, since most of the writing systems today descend from only a handful of ancient ones. It's not like every few years these cultures re-evaluate which direction to write. So how were these decisions originally made? Writing was first done not with ink or pigment, but by etching or pressing into clay, stone, etc. So the advantage to choosing one direction over the other wasn't present. The decision was most likely made rather arbitrarily.