syntax oddities

[Chris Angelico]

On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 9:29 PM, bartc <bc at freeuk.com> wrote:
> On 17/05/2018 23:49, Chris Angelico wrote:
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>> On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 8:44 AM, Paul <tallpaul at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>>> I've been using email for thirty years, including thousands of group
>>> emails
>>> at many tech companies, and no one has ever suggested, let alone insisted
>>> on, bottom posting.  If someone's late to a thread they can read from it
>>> the bottom up.
>>
>>
>> Remind me which direction text is usually written in English?
>
>
> Is this a trick question? It's usually written left to right.

And the lines are written top to bottom. Not bottom to top. Why should
people have to read sections from the bottom up, but text within the
section from the top down?

ChrisA