Re: [bpfk] Finishing the BPFK sections

[Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 8:39 PM, Pierre Abbat <phma@bezitopo.org> wrote:

On Wednesday, June 18, 2014 19:13:16 John Cowan wrote:
> The question here is, which way does the Moon face?  My intuition says that
> it faces the Earth, so "in front of the moon" means the same thing under
> either interpretation.

It makes sense to say that the Moon always faces the Earth, but there is
nothing outside the Earth always faces, except a geostationary satellite. So
which way does the Earth face? I'd say the Earth's nose is in the Bight of
Benin, its right ear is in the Galápagos, and its neck is at the South Pole.
That puts its glabella in Greenwich, where it is defined to be.

I think that Lojban rules for assigning facing to objects that don't naturally
have it should be different from English rules.

I'm honestly not sure how often the facing of a celestial body would come up in general- or even subject-specific- conversation. As far as a concrete example of a sentence involving facing and celestial objects, the best I can up with is "The daytime of a planet occurs on the hemisphere facing the star it is orbiting.", or "A tidally locked celestial body has a revolution and rotation rate that cause the same hemisphere of the body to always be facing the body it orbits.", and in both those cases, we're talking about the facing a /part/ of the body, not the body itself. If anything, I would say that either celestial objects face all ways simultaneously, or face none. I also don't think it's really a good idea to use directions that require front/back/left/right/up/down when dealing that by their nature don't have any of them.

 

Pierre

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