tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Dec 05 12:22:17 1997
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Re: N,S,E,W
> Let me suggest here a set of terms for the cardinal directions, based on the
> sun's apparent daily path through the
> sky:
>
> west pemHov 'et
> east pemHov 'o'
> north pemHov nIH
> south pemHov poS
>
> These are independent of the hemisphere you happen to be in (unlike terms tha
> t relate "cold" to north and "warm" to
> south, which work only in the northern hemisphere). I owe the idea for "north
> " and "south" to H. Beam Piper's
> Fuzzies.
>
someone already pointed out that it is quite arbitrary, where you
choose to be "fore", and it also has been suggested to use something
like
Salbogh pemHov lurgh for east and
ghIrbogh pemHov lurgh for west
(unless you have this weird situation where the sun rises in the west)
(of course someone will read these as "up" and "down" resp. :)
maybe one can use
pemHov He poS (lurgh) for south and
pemHov He nIH (lurgh) for north
at least to me they are independent of the latitude and they are shorter
than, e.g.
Sal pemHov 'e' bejbogh nuv poS (lurgh) for north
Sal pemHov 'e' bejbogh nuv nIH (lurgh) for south
(I just included them to show that "left" and "right" alone are quite
ambiguous too)
Marc Ruehlaender
aka HomDoq
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