OT: Spatial thinking (WAS: Re: Letf / Right,was Re: Countandmass nouns)

Tristan McLeay wrote:
> Typically I find that road maps are labelled. If I wanted to know where
> Kansas was, I'd turn to a map of the entire US and hope they wrote the
> states out in full because otherwise I wouldn't know if I was looking for
> KA or KS.
Well, true.  Still, that's a lot of searching, which would make it
rather slow work.  And it seems to me that to be able to use a map
quickly and effortlessly would be contradictory with having to search
for locations, to be able to find a given state quickly, and then to
quickly find the desired city within that state.  And I still don't see
how that ability could exist without a mental labeling.

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