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Re: left and right

From:<morphemeaddict@...>
Date:Friday, April 4, 2008, 15:13
In a message dated 4/4/2008 01:53:54 AM Central Daylight Time,
fuscian@GMAIL.COM writes:


> I don't know if there are no words for > the latter at all, but they write that the concepts are not available to the > speakers, "at least without reflection." They tie this in with the strong > cultural tendency to keep attention away from individuals. Saying that > something is "to the north" instead of "to my right" achieves this. > > Josh Roth >
If people say "to the north" when they mean "to the right" (making it a local reference and not really to the north at all (because 'north' and 'right' are not related), then they have left and right and simply use a compass point as a metaphor. If they literally mean "to the north", then it can't be used as "to the right", because, as I said, the two aren't related. Thanks for the reference, Josh. stevo </HTML>

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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>