Re: CHAT: Visigoths (was: YADPT (D=Dutch))

On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:

> In spite of digitalization rotation clocks don't
> seem to be falling out of use (probably because
> once you learn how they are quicker to read),
> but if they would, these terms would become as
> completely unhelpful as they are long.  Perhaps
> one might say "rightwise" and "leftwise" instead.
> At least that's an idea for a conlang!
That kind of terminology confuses me! When I was learning how to drive, my
driving instructor used to tell me to turn the steering wheel left and
right which was well and good when I was facing forwards and had little to
worry about, but when facing backwards trying to do a reverse park, he
might as wess have been speaking French (on the other hand, I got
clockwise and anticlockwise perfectly fine). Apparently I'm unique in
this. (And it isn't that I can't tell left from right, at least when
someone else is using the terms and I just have to understand them. It's
the concept of turning a circle left or right that confuses me.)

--
Tristan.

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