Re: CHAT: living conditions/conditionally Re: MiscellaneousNonsense

Yoon Ha Lee wrote:

> OC, you're safer pointing me in the right direction anyway, since I can
> barely tell right from left.  <wry g>
>
> Speaking of which, are there any languages that *don't* use right/left,
> or use them differently, or...?  I've always wondered about that.
Yes, actually.  There are some Plains Indian languages in North America
which have absolute reference points, based on the cardinal directions,
rather than relative ones.  It's pretty easy to understand in what kind of
environment one or the other is preferred.

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