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Jorge Llamb=EDas scripsit:

> But some objects do have an intrinsic up side and bottom side, otherwise
> nothing could ever be upside down. So in this respect up/down is more lik=
e
> front/back and left/right than like north/south and east/west.

But that's not the way above/below or up/down is actually used.  Alice
has an upper side and a lower side, but if she's standing on her head,
the floor is still below her, not above her.  We'd need separate FAhA
to express "topwards of" and "bottomwards of" relations.

> Well, are there any languages that don't work like English in this respec=
t?

I don't know. =20

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