Re: CHAT: The Conlang Instinct

John Cowan:
>
> Gerald Koenig wrote:
>
> > Dyslexia is of some concern to
> > to me as the vector tense system depends on a clear right/left sense.
>
> I have no reading difficulties, but I often confuse left/right
> and east/west.
I have no trouble with left/right but have to concentrate to get
east/west right (tho this is the one thing I do better than John!)

> I have no similar troubles with north/south or up/down.  I suspect,
> however that learning to associate past=up and future=down or vice
> versa would be difficult as well.
Because of some specific dyslexic problem. To those who haven't read
it, I recommend George Lakoff & Mark Johnson c.1980 _Metaphors we
live by_, U. of Chicago Press: it's on spatial metaphors for past
and future & is the sort of popular but undumbed-down work that
would probably appeal to people here.

In Livagian, as in English, the start of something in time is
its front and its end is its rear, while we in our present moment
face and converge with future events and diverge from past events,
which are behind us.

--And.