Upside down E--another argument

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Thu Feb 20 19:56:49 UTC 2003


At 2:11 PM -0500 2/20/03, Barbara Abbott wrote:
>At 12:49 PM -0500 2/20/03, Laurence Horn wrote:
>>Another argument for my stance on upside-down E:
>>
>>1) Walk into an ophthamologist's office.
>>
>>2) Find the large eye-chart in which the top line looks like this:
>>
>>                                       E
>>
>>--only much bigger.
>>
>>3) Stand on your head (you are now upside-down, right?).
>
>You've also switched left and right.
>
But that's what happens when you turn yourself (or the piece of
paper) upside-down.  It's simply what upside-downness involves.



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