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From: Don Wiggins <dwiggins@BFSEC.BT.CO.UK>
Subject:      Rotation
To: John Cowan <cowan@LOCKE.CCIL.ORG>
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> the reference to a
> particular time-keeping artifact (which is being rapidly replaced by
> digital devices anyway) as a way of expressing rotational motion seems a
> bit absurd.

Steady on old chap!  :-)

I am questioning whether lojban should adopt the trig convention of
positive/negative in describing rotation.  Clockwise/anti-clockwise, in
>English<, seems to me much easier to understand than left/right.  A lojbani
could easily enough use minus/plus for the same purpose.

co'o mi'e dn.