Comment on Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)?
Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 5 days ago
Do we really need West and South when we can use negative North and negative East?
Yes of course.
Otherwise I couldn’t say anymore: “I am looking North and my butt is looking South”.
And how would you even pronounce south-Southwest then? Impossible unless you are quite drunk!
/s
1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 5 days ago
anti-north-northeast doesn’t sound unreasonable, but that’s being logical instead of just thinking about two directions, as written in text, as OP is
Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 5 days ago
But that isn’t enough.
Try all the 16 possibilities and then see how many “antis” you really need there.
1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 5 days ago
In all cases, 2 at most.
North North-north-east North-east North-east-east East Anti-north-east-east Anti-north-east Anti-north-north-east (south-north-east is impossible so the second anti would be redundant) Anti-north anti-east-anti-north-north (reversed word order to distinguish it further) Anti-east-anti-north Anti-east-east-anti-north Anti-east Anti-east-east-north Anti-east-north Anti-east-north-north
Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 4 days ago
These extra complications make it even more unusable that the anti thing itself LOL