Re:Things I Wish I’d Known Before Fulltime RVing (2017)
by technothrasher on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @02:38PM
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And if you turn around, left and right change places... woah.
Snide comment aside, it's obviously in reference to standard map orientation. Maps had to be oriented somehow, unless you're advocating for the chaos of arbitrary individual map orientations.
Re:Things I Wish I’d Known Before Fulltime RVing (2017)
by GlumWoodpecker on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @02:23PM
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On a conventionally oriented map, south is always down, and north is always up. "Down south" and "up north" are also very common phrases when discussing relative geographical locations, due to the same reason.
Re:Things I Wish I’d Known Before Fulltime RVing (2017)
by EA-3167 on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @02:28PM
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Up a wall? Why not down a wall or across it?
Re:Things I Wish I’d Known Before Fulltime RVing (2017)
by karaterobot on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @02:33PM
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And yet you know exactly what they mean when they say it, indicating maybe it's a useful convention, even if imperfect.
Re:Things I Wish I’d Known Before Fulltime RVing (2017)
by post-it on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @04:38PM
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Having trouble with figures of speech has been linked to schizophrenia. e.g. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.0067...
Re:Things I Wish I’d Known Before Fulltime RVing (2017)
by prawn on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @11:35PM
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I'm Australian and don't know anyone here who wouldn't consider North America "above". Can't imagine having the time to be that pedantic. Using "north of $50k" to describe something more expensive than $50k is very standard here too.
"South" to mean down or below, and likewise for north, drives me up a wall. If you are standing at the south pole, north is down. There's also no concept of up/down in space, and so northern hemisphere normalcy is false. To Australians, North America is below!