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

E fésto Roger Mills <romilly@...>:
> Doug Dee wrote:
>> Now that I think of it, that is perhaps surprising.  Many deitic systems
>> have a near/far distinction, and left/right would not seem any less
>> useful at first glance.
>>
> Inconvenient.  You'd need three words:
> "over there on the left" (speaker & hearer facing the same direction)
> "over there on my left ~ over there on your left" (facing each other)
Not necessarily.  English has words for "here" and "there" (by the
speaker) without corresponding locations near the hearer (unlike, say,
Spanish).  Similarly there's no reason one'd hafta have a "left/right"
word that had any relation to the hearer.




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