Re: left and right

On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 17:11:00 EDT, MorphemeAddict@WMCONNECT.COM wrote:

>Does anyone know of any cultures that don't have the concept of "left" and
>"right", or don't have words for these concepts?
>
>stevo   </HTML>
Yes; unfortunately I don't remember the name of the language, though. Nor
the name of the author, nor the title of the work.

But in essence, there is at least one culture (I think more than one; and I
think one is in the Pacific or in Oceania or near Australia somewhere) without
these concepts; and interestingly when a direction comes up in confversation,
and they are later asked to remember it, they remember a direction parallel to
the originial direction; their sense of direction is not deictic.

Sorry I can't remember the details better.

(I don't know that they don't distinguish, say, the left hand from the right
hand (or whatever) somehow; it's just that they don't have "left" and "right"
as directional or locational concepts.)