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Re: [lojban] Re: Direction of Rotation
Gleki Arxokuna, On 13/08/2012 06:00:
On Monday, August 13, 2012 8:50:01 AM UTC+4, aionys wrote:
You don't seem to understand what culturally neutral means. If there is no culture that does a certain thing differently than the other cultures, than us also doing it that way is /not/ culturally biased. In order for it to be biased, it has to be something one (subset) of the various cultures do in this way.
I understand. Let's wait until such culture is discovered. But I doubt whether there are languages that have separate words for "clockwise" that are not derived from metaphors.
English _deasil_ ("clockwise") and _widdershins_ ("anticlockwise") have no transparent etymology or metaphoric basis. But, as I pointed out in the 1995 thread that Jorge linked to, in traditional English culture _widdershins_ is clearly understood culturally as turning leftwards. I would not accept that "turn rightwards/leftwards" aren't culturally neutral tho, since they must be quasi-universals cognitively, similarly understandable by every culture that distinguishes left from right.
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