Re: Clockwise without clocks
| From: | Doug Dee <amateurlinguist@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, April 1, 2005, 0:19 |
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In a message dated 3/30/2005 7:03:37 PM Eastern Standard Time,
fiziwig@YAHOO.COM writes:
>Think not of the wheel but of the wagon. Clockwise is
>the wheel motion of a wagon which is moving to your
>right, so saying right-wheel, rather than clock-wise,
>makes perfect sense.
Ok, that's perfectly clear now.
Of course, it assumes the language in question has words for "right" and
"left."
Are those universal? I seem to recall reading that some cultures did not
distinguish right & left.
Doug
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