Do we really need West and South when we can use negative North and negative East?

  • Hegar@fedia.io
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    4 days ago

    North and south are fundementally different, climate and biosphere -wise, so i don’t think it would ever make sense to people to modify the same word to describe two very different things. East and west maybe less so, but dawn and dusk are pretty important differences.

    Some polynesian cultures use two main direction words, which usually translate as something like mountain-ward and beach-ward.