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Re:Multi-Layer Dictionary (2016) by underyx on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @02:21AM (#20504827)
So how would you propose to explain which side is which?
Re:Multi-Layer Dictionary (2016) by tftplayer on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @02:52AM (#20504943)
Use an asymmetry of the human body. Left is on the same side as your heart.
Re:Multi-Layer Dictionary (2016) by Freak_NL on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @03:15AM (#20505038)
Which is again, only most of time (cf: dextrocardia).

Not as common as left-handedness (one in ten), but still in the order of one in ten thousand people.

Re:Multi-Layer Dictionary (2016) by pmalynin on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @03:43AM (#20505126)
Your heart is squarely in the middle. You feel the heart beat on the left because the ventricle is larger.
Re:Multi-Layer Dictionary (2016) by 8bitsrule on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @03:04AM (#20504997)
Left: Face the noon sun. Lift one arm to point at where it was first seen this morning.

Edit: works where I live. YMMV. Adapt as needed (which I thought about saying but decided wasn't needed here.)

Re:Multi-Layer Dictionary (2016) by dragonwriter on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @03:19AM (#20505059)
> Left: Face the noon sun. Lift one arm to point at where it was first seen this morning.

That...fails to be generally accurate pretty badly.

Re:Multi-Layer Dictionary (2016) by Groxx on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @03:27AM (#20505077)
As a quick example: north vs south hemisphere swaps this.
Re:Multi-Layer Dictionary (2016) by dragonwriter on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @04:06AM (#20505203)
That's approximately correct, though It think it's most actually “north or south of the subsolar point at noon on the day in question”.

North and South of the tropics will give either consistently right or consistently wrong answers, but within the tropics you'll get different answers on different days.