Re: irregularities

I don't quite understand. "North" and "South" as you are using them seem to
mean "geometrically North and South of the Earth's equator" rather than
"Northward" and "Southward". But the division of the world into two distinct
halves is merely a result of the drawing of a line on a map (okay, I know
it's the locus of all points intermediate between the poles as well) and the
point is surely that nobody, in a cultural sense, actually perceives them
this way. There is no real dividing line between one hemisphere and another
that would enable you to actually know whether you could see the South of
the world or not. The night sky is different; you can easily determine where
the celestial poles are, and thus by interpolation, the equator. But in this
case, even though you can't see 'the South of the world' in the sense of
'places with negative latitudes' you can certainly see (some of) the South
of the sky, unless you're standing at the North Pole.
Mike
> No, they just think of them seperately.  World is not a pair, because,
> unless you are standing on the equator, you cannot see the south of the
> world.

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