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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>