Comment on I would personally just treat whatever direction I'm facing at the time as North and go from there.
brey1013@lemmy.world 2 days agoIf you extend your thumb and first finger, the L shape that is the correct way around is on your left hand.
Akasazh@feddit.nl 2 days ago
Yeah I know when I have time to think about it.
It’s just when people say: ‘go left here’ or me throng to indicate direction in a split second that my change of getting it right reduced to 50%. My brain doesn’t grok that left right isn’t absolute but related to orientation.
Filthmontane@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Just remember that port is a 4 letter word and so is left. So left is port and right is starboard.
Akasazh@feddit.nl 2 days ago
Thnx, very helpful.
lugal@lemmy.world 2 days ago
What helped me as a kid is imagine to write. That’s my left hand and than I know which is which without thinking too consciously (in case you’re right handed, it’s the other way around obviously).
But interesting that you know absolute directions easily. That’s a cultural thing actually. I think Australian Aborigines will say things like “my western foot hurts” because it’s more intuitive for them that way.
Akasazh@feddit.nl 2 days ago
If I think for it for s second I know, I’ll think about my dominant hand too (although my dominant feet is on the opposite side so I don’t have a clear dominant side).
Yeah the aboriginal method seems way more intuitive to me, yet it probably won’t replace the left right system anytime soon :p