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Gleki Arxokuna, On 13/08/2012 06:00:
> On Monday, August 13, 2012 8:50:01 AM UTC+4, aionys wrote:
>     You don't seem to understand what culturally neutral means. If there =
is no culture that does a certain thing differently than the other cultures=
, than us also doing it that way is /not/ culturally biased. In order for i=
t to be biased, it has to be something one (subset) of the various cultures=
 do in this way.
>
> I understand. Let's wait until such culture is discovered. But I doubt wh=
ether there are languages that have separate words for "clockwise" that are=
 not derived from metaphors.

English _deasil_ ("clockwise") and _widdershins_ ("anticlockwise") have no =
transparent etymology or metaphoric basis. But, as I pointed out in the 199=
5 thread that Jorge linked to, in traditional English culture _widdershins_=
 is clearly understood culturally as turning leftwards. I would not accept =
that "turn rightwards/leftwards" aren't culturally neutral tho, since they =
must be quasi-universals cognitively, similarly understandable by every cul=
ture that distinguishes left from right.

--And.

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