Re: Clockwise without clocks
| From: | Edward Miller <sewerbird@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, April 1, 2005, 2:58 |
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Well... assuming right-handed people are the predominant group in the culture:
When I spin myself around to be dizzy, I always turn to my right hand:
I assume this is a trait of right handed people, and that the inverse
holds for lefties. If we take this, why not say "Dizzy" and
"Anti-dizzy"? d(^_^)b
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 12:17:48 -0500, Geoff Horswood
<geoffhorswood@...> wrote:
> So how would you express the ideas of "clockwise" and "anticlockwise" in a
> culture that doesn't have clocks?
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> -movement of the sun? shadows?
> -to the left/right? (but is that the part closest to you or furthest away?
>
> Geoff
>