Endangered specie (coinages)

[Dan Goncharoff]

How would it work on a moon base?
DanG


On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> On Mar 11, 2012, at 2:18 PM, James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
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> > "clockwise" means "in the direction that the sun's shadow moves on a
> sundial in the Northern Hemisphere".  So it became what you call an
> "endangered species" not when digital clocks appeared but when mechanical
> clocks put sundials out of business.
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> Maybe we can revive "deasil" (and "widdershins" for 'counterclockwise'),
> since these are indeed defined in terms of the (apparent) direction of the
> sun in the Northern (resp. Southern) hemisphere, which is unlikely to be
> rendered obsolete by technological advances.
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> LH
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