Re: CHAT: living conditions/conditionally Re: MiscellaneousNonsense
| From: | SMITH,MARCUS ANTHONY <smithma@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, August 18, 2000, 20:58 |
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On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, John Cowan wrote:
> Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
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> > Speaking of which, are there any languages that *don't* use right/left,
> > or use them differently, or...? I've always wondered about that.
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> 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.
I heard they were Australian languages. Am I wrong on this count? Or is
this an urban legend of linguistics?
Marcus