Re: CHAT: The Conlang Instinct

On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, andrew wrote:

> I mastered east/west after I learnt that facing north spells W.E. (west.
> east.)  I have never mastered left/right.  To this day I still look for
> the L made by the index finger and the thumb of the left hand.
I used to have to turn to "face the mirror", by which I meant facing the
direction that I imagined my bathroom mirror to be.  The direction that I
had to face seemed to be relative to the door of the house I was in, not
to the compass direction of the mirror I was thinking of.  Then I broke my
arm. After breaking my right arm, I have never had any difficulty with
left and right at all.

Sometimes I don't remember how North, South, East and West relate to each
other, so I quickly imagine a map of the united states, and there they
are.

Amanda