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

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Thursday, January 22, 2004, 15:56
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? Andreas

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Peter Bleackley <peter.bleackley@...>