Re: CHAT: The Conlang Instinct

andrew wrote:
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> Am 12/10 13:55  John Cowan yscrifef:
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> > I have no reading difficulties, but I often confuse left/right and east/west.
> 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 master without a problem left-right, but for west-east I have to
think about it, it takes me some time. I must first find the North, then
remember that if I'm facing North West is at the left. If I can't find
easily the North I use the sun, but then it takes me even more time :( .

        My mother never mastered left-right, and I think she never will :) .
Also, don't ask her your direction, she most certainly will lead you to
the opposite direction :) .

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