CHAT: living conditions/conditionally Re: MiscellaneousNonsense
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, August 18, 2000, 20:15 |
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Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
> Speaking of which, are there any languages that *don't* use right/left,
> or use them differently, or...? I've always wondered about that.
There are Native American lgs (but I forget just which ones) that habitually
use north/south/east/west instead of left/right/front/back to refer to
directions.
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