Re: USAGE: Count and mass nouns

Philippe Caquant scripsit:

> Bu the way, I wonder if any natlang has markers for
> left / right distinction. I examined Russian preverbs
> rather closely for instance, and there is nothing like
> that. I even can't remember what is the conceptual
> definition of left / right, except the one that says
> that "left is the side of your left hand" :-)
There isn't any.  There is no way to differentiate left and right
for people who can't see the same things you can (for example,
aliens living down in Jupiter), until you can talk about subatomic
particles, where the left-right symmetry of the universe is actually
broken.

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