Re: Delexicalization of left & right
| From: | Eugene Oh <un.doing@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, August 6, 2006, 2:49 |
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2006/8/1, John Vertical <johnvertical@...>:
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> >Whether the cultural concept _right: good vs. left: bad, taboo_ is really
> >ancient is an interesting question.
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> Well, with handedness, right=strong, left=weak is rather trivial; the more
> symbolic meaning is not exactly lightyears apart, altho I wouldn't expect
> every culture to have developed / adopted it.
>
In many of the southern Chinese languages, "right" is still expressed
with 正 (right, erect, proper) and "left" with 倒 (overturned, fallen,
opposite).