Quoting Hans Havermann <pxp@rogers.com>:

"In order to speak a language like Guugu Yimithirr, you need to know where the cardinal directions are at each and every moment of your waking life."

What a strange name for a language. Neverthess I sympathize with the situation. I always feel extremely uneasy if I don't continually know directions, and for a long time I thought mountains were to the North like on maps until someone pointed out that the Rockies ran North and South, so what I thought was North was actually West. I still have difficulty with left and right; for the longest time I had to stop and think about which hand I wrote with. Or ... . Many years ago I read a similar story about a missionary in Africa, so this reportage can't be entirely new. -hvm ------------------------------------------------- www.correo.unam.mx UNAMonos Comunicándonos