Re: OT: Spatial thinking (WAS: Re: Letf / Right, was Re: Count and mass nouns)

Staving Andreas Johansson:
>Quoting Peter Bleackley <Peter.Bleackley@...>:
>
> > Staving John Cowan:
> > >Roger Mills scripsit:
> > >
> > > > Grids are BOring; mazes like Boston - London - Paris are beautiful.
> > >
> > >All very well, but when moving about on foot, there is an immense
> > >advantage to knowing that if one is on 22nd St., 23rd St. may be
> > >reached by walking in the canonical positive direction (north in
> > >New York, west in Philadelphia).  Boston's system provides
> > >easy navigation -- if you are a cow.
> >
> > I tended to get lost a lot more often in Kyoto than I did in Tokyo.
>
>This isn't too informative to those of us unfamiliar with street layout and
>naming principles in Tokyo and Kyoto. Elaborate?

Kyoto has grid-like streets, Tokyo maze-like. I found the irregular layout
of Tokyo more easy to correlate with a map than the regular layout of
Kyoto, where you could easily lose track of how many blocks you'd gone.

Pete