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Goran:
> 1) About directions:
> There is only one possible relatively culturally neutral way of
> specifying left/right.

Culturally neutral can be unnatural. Not every culture may think
of clockwise as the direction one moves when ones right is nearest
to what one is going around, but it seems a very natural &
bodily-grounded way of capturing the direction, unlike stuff from
particle physics.

> 7) About Chinese Whispers:
> .ausaiju'o

Good. That makes 5 (Goran, Don, Peter, Jorge, And). I would prefer 7.
Are there a couple of other translators out there, who'd like to
participate?

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