Re: Clockwise without clocks

--- Doug Dee <AmateurLinguist@...> wrote:
> 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."
<snip>

OK, so when you are sitting by the fire at the camp of
old Banuch and Rijam Tal goes by leading his oxcart to
the marketplace, you describe the motion of a rotating
object as "Banuch sees Tal going to market." (In the
spirit of "Darmak and Jalad at Tenagra.")

--gary