[lojban-beginners] English directions

[MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com]

In a message dated 3/8/2006 4:23:24 AM Central Standard Time, ecartis@digitalkingdom.org writes:


> 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


My inlaws have a cottage on a lake.  To them, the front of the cottage is the lake side.  To me the front is the road side (on the opposite side from the lake).

It's very confusing sometimes.

stevo