[lojban-beginners] Re: Confusion with Lojban For Beginners

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Tuesday 07 March 2006 16:45, Jim Dabell wrote:
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> "in-frame-of-reference" suggests to me a third possibility; that neither
> Julia nor Maria necessarily face Claudia, but that Julia is to the right of
> Maria from Claudia's point of view.
>
> So which of these three meanings is the correct one?

I think that Julia is to the right of Maria from Claudia's point of view. 
English has a few expressions indicating right in a reference frame, such as 
"stage right" (not to be confused with stage fright ;) ) and "audience 
right". Audience right is right in the frame of reference of someone in the 
audience.

The directions used for houses in English are weird. Right and left are in the 
frame of someone in the street looking at the house, but front and back are 
in the frame of someone in the house looking at the street. Beats me.

phma