Re: [bpfk] Finishing the BPFK sections

[John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>]

Jorge Llambías scripsit:

> Not exactly in the same way, because faceless objects don't acquire
> a left and a right corresponding to their acquired front face (their
> acquired left and right, if they do have ones, would correspond to a
> face facing in the same way the speaker/point-of-view is facing, not
> facing towards the speaker.

I agree that that is so in English, but I don't think it necessarily
makes sense for Lojban.  In heraldry, the left side of a shield is
called the dexter (right) side, and the right side is called the
sinister (left) side, because blazonry takes the shield's point of view,
(ultimately that of the wearer) rather than the observer's point of view.

> So above/below, in-front-of/behind, and left-of/right-of each follow
> their own slightly different rules.

Above/below is an absolute (or rather Earth-relative) direction, like
north-south and east-west.  It doesn't fit here at all.  I see no reason
why front, back, left, and right should be inconsistent in Lojban just
because they are inconsistent in English.

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