Re: left and right
From: | <morphemeaddict@...> |
Date: | Saturday, April 5, 2008, 4:25 |
In a message dated 4/4/2008 19:22:07 PM Central Daylight Time,
cactus95@VERIZON.NET writes:
> "Left" and "Right" are relative terms that have the most meaning to the
> speaker, while the cardinal directions[except at the poles, where all ways are
> one direction] are absolute and the same, regardless of the position of the
> speaker.
>
This is true of all deictic terms, too, being relative to the speaker.
stevo </HTML>