What does left-to-right mean?

left-to-right

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.45 in modern English

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adj

That is written (and is read) from left to right.

adv

"Ramsay Ames was Ananka at the beginning, but after that it was her stand-in, who we dressed the same way and put the makeup on. Incidentally, I shot that chase differently than what Pivar was used to. Chases always ran left-to-right, left-to-right, all the time."

left to right (alternative) LTR (alternative)

right-to-left

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