Re: CHAT: The Conlang Instinct
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, December 15, 1999, 23:42 |
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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.
For left-right, I always imagined reading a book, starting on the left
side. And for north, east, south, west, I used the mnemonic "Never Eat
Soggy Waffles". Even now I occasionally will have to think about
east-west, but left-right I never have problems with anymore.
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