Re: OT: Spatial thinking (WAS: Re: Letf / Right, was Re: Count and mass nouns)
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, January 23, 2004, 13:32 |
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John Cowan wrote:
> Roger Mills scripsit:
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> > Grids are BOring; mazes like Boston - London - Paris are beautiful.
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> 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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