A SUPPORTING IDEA

”I’ve been planning my own fantasy world a lot lately.” //
”I don’t have giants there but four-meter-tall, four-armed frogs.” //
”I’ve also been developing a writing system for them but I can’t decide if they would write horizontally or vertically.” //
”I think frogs would obviously write vertically.” ”Why?” //
”We mammals have the atlas vertebra in our necks which allows for up-and-down movement of the head… and the axis vertebra that allows the head the move side-to-side.” //
”Frogs, however, lack the axis vertebra so they cannot move their heads from side to side. Therefore they would write vertically.” //
”Well, that solves it. Vertically it is.” ”I’m just wondering why THIS is what I remember from my fresher’s year’s animal anatomy class…”