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Re: [lojban] Direction of Rotation



On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 2:51 PM, MorphemeAddict <lytlesw@gmail.com> wrote:


On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 3:24 AM, Jonathan Jones <eyeonus@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 1:18 AM, la .lindar. <lindarthebard@gmail.com> wrote:
Maybe something like {prityfalgu'o} and {zulfalgu'o}?

That's fairly inaccurate. Rotation has nothing to with gravity, and falling /requires/ it. It is perfectly possible for something to move/rotate in a clockwise direction without falling. Every celestial body that isn't rotating counter-clockwise does it. (technically: the rotation of the Earth has nothing to do with the fact that the Earth is perpetually falling toward Sol.)

What is the standard for determining north/right-left? 
Whether Earth (and other bodies in space) rotate and revolve clockwise or counterclockwise is purely arbitrary, 50/50. But once any one thing is determined to be north, everything else follows. 
How about using chirality as the basis of a definition? 

Or, as someone has already mentioned, the basic righthandedness of humans? 

The fact that an object has a top and bottom does not in any way determine whether that object spins left or right. 

stevo

stevo 


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