Comment on Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)?

• Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Anti-north-north-east (south-north-east is impossible so the second anti would be redundant)

  These extra complications make it even more unusable that the anti thing itself LOL

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  • 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I was assuming a conlang situation where “north” referred more to the axis, rather than the direction.

    Anti-north-north would be more “reversed-vertical-vertical” meaning it’s reversed vertical (south), and closer to the vertical axis than the horizontal axis. North would just be “vertical” without being reversed.

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    • Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I don’t know what you are even talking about (and too lazy to put it into a translator now).

      But I know that North and South are terms that must be usable for everybody. So, especially for such people who don’t know what you are even talking about.

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      • 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Essentially: it’s not designed as a change from North/East/South/West, it’s designed as a from-scratch way to refer to those directions.

        The sun rises in the East and sets in the West, so let’s say East is “Sun” and West is “Setting-Sun.”

        Polaris/The North Star is in the North, so let’s call that direction “Star” and the other direction “No-Star.”

        When you say “Setting-Sun-Sun-Star,” you’re saying the direction is more similar to the path the sun takes through the sky than it is to the North Star, and in the direction the sun sets.

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