Re: CHAT: Directions

On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, abrigon wrote:

> I heard from a recent study that proved or so it does how women and men
> differ, atleast when it comes to finding things and maps and all.
>
> Women use landmarks alot, and men use direction and streets.
>
That's curious - Irina and I are just the other way around. She
regularly gets furious with me because after four years I still
don't know the streetnames of Deventer. I find everything using
landmarks like 'near the supermarket that's near the high-rises'
or 'between the river and the building we nearly had bought for our
church' ;-). Perhaps that's because I visualize myself in a sort of
miniature version of Deventer.

> I use up and down river, but mostly when I was on a river.
>
The Charyans, being conquerors who once reigned an empire stretching
over a continent, use east, west, south, north - there system of
deixis appears to distinguish between near, distant to the speaker,
distant from both speaker and hear and somewhere.

Boudewijn Rempt  | http://denden.conlang.org