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

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Friday, January 23, 2004, 13:32
John Cowan wrote:

> 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).
South, in Sioux Falls SD or Holland MI. Even so, as I recall, you're more likely in NYC to be told "go uptown/downtown" etc. Actually NYC/Manhattan above 14th St. is remarkably easy, except for the house-numbering-- IIRC my old phone book had a page explaining how to figure what number corresponded to what cross-street, at least close-enough.....(it tends to vary for each N/S avenue). Boston's system provides
> easy navigation -- if you are a cow. >
Moo! Or NYC south of 14th St. IIRC, somewhere in the Village, West 4th St. crosses West 12th St...........

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John Cowan <cowan@...>