From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed Mar 08 05:48:43 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Wed, 08 Mar 2006 05:48:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FGz1v-00076a-Gw for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Wed, 08 Mar 2006 05:48:43 -0800 Received: from imo-m21.mx.aol.com ([64.12.137.2]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FGz1u-00076T-FM for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Wed, 08 Mar 2006 05:48:43 -0800 Received: from MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com by imo-m21.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v38_r7.3.) id d.b9.6a57a71f (4552) for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2006 08:48:34 -0500 (EST) From: MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com Message-ID: Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 08:48:33 EST Subject: [lojban-beginners] English directions To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_b9.6a57a71f.31403ab1_boundary" X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -0.8 (/) X-archive-position: 3089 X-Approved-By: MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners --part1_b9.6a57a71f.31403ab1_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 3/8/2006 4:23:24 AM Central Standard Time, ecartis@digitalkingdom.org writes: > The directions used for houses in English are weird. Right and left are in > the > frame of someone in the street looking at the house, but front and back are > in the frame of someone in the house looking at the street. Beats me. > > phma > My inlaws have a cottage on a lake. To them, the front of the cottage is the lake side. To me the front is the road side (on the opposite side from the lake). It's very confusing sometimes. stevo --part1_b9.6a57a71f.31403ab1_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable In a message dated 3/8/2006 4:23:24= AM Central Standard Time, ecartis@digitalkingdom.org writes:


The directions used for hou= ses in English are weird. Right and left are in the=20
frame of someone in the street looking at the house, but front and back=20= are=20
in the frame of someone in the house looking at the street. Beats me.

phma


My inlaws have a cottage on a lake.  To them, the front of the cott= age is the lake side.  To me the front is the road side (on the opposit= e side from the lake).

It's very confusing sometimes.

stevo --part1_b9.6a57a71f.31403ab1_boundary--