Re: [bpfk] Finishing the BPFK sections

[Pierre Abbat <phma@bezitopo.org>]

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.

Pierre

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