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Re: boustrophedon (was: Atlantis II)

From:tristan alexander mcleay <zsau@...>
Date:Thursday, June 28, 2001, 8:57
Nik Taylor wrote:

> Henrik Theiling wrote: > >>On the other hand, I'm totally incapable of choosing the right word >>for left and right. >> > > Interesting. I have no problem with that, early on I used the mnemonic > of reading, you start on the left, and go to the right. However, I do > often confuse east and west. There's been many times when I made a map, > and marked, say, East Province for the westernmost province, or West > Province for the easternmost. :-)
So long as i can see the sun, or can remember about where it was last time i saw it, i appear to be incapable of mixing up those. Or getting lost. On the other hand, i go into a shopping centre and get lost three minutes later, and i really hate getting lost. ObConlang: I was told yesterday that i'd submitted a conlang of mine (Finnstek) to VCAA (who is in charge of the VCE (which is {what you get/the course you do to} to finish secondary school in Victoria) as a subject to do (not that, to my knowledge, one can do this), and that they approved me to do it as a three-and-four (which is the Year 12 component of the two-year course (year 11 has, obviously, one-and-twos). Or, less complicatedly (but slightly inaccurately): rumours are going arond that the people who decide what subjects you can do in Years 11 and 12 have said that I can study Finnstek, one of my conlangs (although it is kind of slowly dying, i think). Of course, the rumours are false, but it still makes for an interesting annecdote. Tristan