re: #587 Obdicut

Heh. No, I don’t assume they could ever have such meaning. That’s my entire point, actually. They have no meaning except in how people use them, and people use them in arbitrary and incoherent ways. And they always have.

And before you start any triumphal march of ‘all language just has meaning as it’s used’, please understand the context of what I’m saying. Any time anyone uses ‘left’ or ‘right’, they may mean something entirely different from the last time it was used. It has no meaning except what can be understood by who the speaker is, who they are addressing, and the personal politics of that own speaker.

Just as you can’t know what knife is to the left, without knowing where the viewer of that knife is.