Re: CHAT: Directions (was: Re: CHAT: living conditions/conditionally)

Irina Rempt <ira@...> wrote:
> Let me repeat what I wrote about a month ago:
>
> > The Valdyan words are verin "east", hanre "south", telhin "west",
> > havin "north"; they also mean "morning, day, evening, night". From
> > this it can be inferred that Valdyas is in the northern hemisphere.
>
> That is, the names for the times of day mean "time when the sun is in
> the X" (except for the north; people know that the world is round
> like an apple and the sun goes around it, but they have to call it
> *something*).
    But in the Northern Hemisphere the sun *is* in the north during the
night; it's just also happens to be below the horizon.

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