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Re: CHAT: The Conlang Instinct

From:Bryan Maloney <bjm10@...>
Date:Wednesday, December 15, 1999, 18:30
On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Amanda Babcock wrote:

> 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
Thwak just use compass in head, thwak does. It's not perfect, but I do generally have a sense of "northness".
> 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.
Face in the direction where northness feels strongest. Sword hand is west. Dagger hand is east. Butt is south.