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Re: left and right

From:Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Date:Friday, April 4, 2008, 15:21
Guys, it was just an example!  Nobody claimed that "to the north" was
used instead of "to my right" universally!

All Josh meant is that a local Madagascan would not describe someone
as being "to their right"; they would instead use whichever compass
direction corresponds to their right at that point in time - FOR
EXAMPLE, "to the north".

Yeesh.  For a bunch of linguistically oriented folks y'all can be
dense at the interpretation of language sometimes. :)

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