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

From: "Andreas Johansson" <andjo@...>
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 9:01 PM
Subject: OT: Spatial thinking (WAS: Re: Letf / Right, was Re: Count and mass
nouns)

[snip]
> Interesting reading.
>
> and not for lacking knowledge of geography.
>
[snip]
> What I'd like to know is
if
> there any much data on this, and in particular if the "mental map" thing
is
> rare, or my family (they all claim not to be able to do it) just happens
to be
> poorly equipped in that area.
>
>                                                        Andreas
>
> Quoting Carsten Becker <post@...>:
> >
> > So you might be interested in
> > http://www.spinnoff.com/zbb/viewtopic.php?t=516.
> >
> > Carsten Becker
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------
> > http://www.beckerscarsten.de/
> > http://gitarrenklampfer.deviantart.com/
> >
>
I usually remember my way with both techniques, a bit of mapping and way
marks. But I'm not able to tell you where's north and south and so on. My
family is not able either. As Robert a.k.a. Trebor described it, I could
find the way to any room in our house even blind, I can imagine pretty good
the ways to the rooms without leaving my room. My local geography knowledge
is bad either. Sometimes I mix up left and right either.But most of the time
I get it right. My mother never knows where is left or right. Usually, I
haven't got problems with maps and pointing at some bigger cities (Germany,
Europe, World) either.

Carsten