Re: Letf / Right, was Re: Count and mass nouns

--- Philippe Caquant <herodote92@...>
wrote:

> But the fact is that, without any natural
> indication, it would have been quite hard to
> define.
What, left and right? Those are, like, cardinal
directions. Much more fundamental than east or
west.

> (I wonder how the Inuits know which one is
> their right hand ?)
They probably do what everyone else in the world
does: look down at their hands...

You don't need external referents to sort out
left and right.

Padraic.


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