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One particularly popular style of writing seems to be boustrophedonic writing, in which the first line is written from left to right, the second line from right to left, the third line from left to right, the fourth line from right to left, and so on.
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* The Fairies in [[Artemis Fowl (Literature)|Artemis Fowl]] are mentioned writing in spirals. Later [[Defied]] by having the green text horizontal and explaining that the spirals gave the fairies migraines.
* On ''[[Fringe]]'', The Observer writes right to left in unintelligible symbols. The Child in the first season, who probably had some connection to the Observer, wrote in English upside down and backwards.
* Japanese is traditionally written from top to bottom, with the columns starting from the right. This is why manga is published "backwards", and why many Western manga-style comics ([[Megatokyo]] and [[Scott Pilgrim]] for example) will have a message printed on the last page reminding you to read the book starting from the other end [[Where Do You Think You Are?|because it's NOT from Japan.]]
** Chinese can be written vertically or horizontally, left-to-right or right-to-left.
** Nowadays Japanese and Chinese are often written left-to-right, in emulation of Western languages, in a sort of [[Real Life]] subversion of the trope.
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