Re: Semantic typology?
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, August 11, 2008, 16:55 |
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On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 12:31 PM, ROGER MILLS <rfmilly@...> wrote:
> On an island oriented NW-SE, and lacking knowledge of the compass and not
> too concerned with the stars, "north" might actually refer to the direction
> perpendicular to the island, hence really northeast....
The "not too concerned with the stars" seems unlikely in a low-tech
culture; I would at any rate expect the direction of the sunrise and
sunset to be significant...
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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>