Re: Currents was Re: Re: boustrophedon (was: Atlantis II)

--- In conlang@y..., John Cowan <cowan@M...> wrote:
> But north is by definition on your left (I hope) as you face
> east.  It's east and west that are fundamental: north and
> south are derived from them.
>
> Or to take a space perspective rather than a surface one,
> the north pole is the one which, as you look down upon it,
> you see counterclockwise rotation.
Well, perhaps for the one inhabited planet of a system, but in our Solar
system, isn't the North pole of a planet defined as the one that's
closest to facing the same direction as Earth's, regardless of rotation?

JDM

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