[Lingtyp] Languages with connotations for 'left' and 'right'

piet lincoln linc at hawaii.rr.com
Sat Mar 2 19:20:33 UTC 2019


What about political use?

We all know "left"  for progressive as opposed to "right" for conservative?

from seating of the French revolutionary parliament?

But was that stage left?  or audience left?   where the "left" sat?

just asking

Piet

Piet as an homage to Danish polymath, Piet Hein.





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