It was said that Leonardo Da Vinci often wrote backwards. I remember doing the "writing backwards" exercise when I was in college because I saw someone doing it and it looked like fun to me anyway. The other day, I came across an article with a lesson on drawing your name backwards and upside-down. Hmmm...deja vu?
"Why not write the alphabet in upper-case and in lower-case letters, backwards and upside-down?" I thought.
So I did. Writing the lower-case letters "b,d,f,g,h,p,q" backwards and upside-down presented me with some difficulty in where to orient the "post or leg" of the letter - left or right, up or down? After a few missed attempts, I eventually learned where to correctly place it.
But something brilliant came about in writing the upper-case letters of the alphabet. Who knew that the letters "I,O,S,X,Z" are already written backwards AND upside-down? Try it for yourself and see.
Note: As a result of this learning, I will use the letters "XZOIS" for a handle. Sounds like "choice", don't you think?
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