H.S.Teoh wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 12:17:48PM -0500, Geoff Horswood wrote:
> > So how would you express the ideas of "clockwise" and "anticlockwise" in
> > a
> > culture that doesn't have clocks?
> How about the movement of a wheel, whether rotating to the left or
> right? (Left-wheeling and right-wheeling for clockwise/counter-
> clockwise). Should be pretty unambiguous, I think.
>
Excellent. Another Kash-gap filled:
yenekap or yengkap clockwise (old compd. *y@nin rotate + *khámbuk right)
yenembuk or yembuk counter-" (*y@nin + *muN@k left)
> Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
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(Advice seldom heeded in their history.)