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From: prawn on 8 Mar 2010 16:35 Champ <news(a)champ.org.uk> wrote: > A quick google appears to show that there is no term that specifically > describes the inability to distinguish right from left. Which is a > pity, because I could use such a word right now. Putting in dyshandia turns up one result ;-) -- Leviticus 11:10
From: prawn on 8 Mar 2010 16:56 doetnietcomputeren <doesnotcompute(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > for the UK, or the countries for which most cars are manufactured? > > And near/off to what? > I don't know why port and starboard aren't used instead. Simples. -- Leviticus 11:10
From: malc on 8 Mar 2010 17:07 prawn wrote: > doetnietcomputeren <doesnotcompute(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >> for the UK, or the countries for which most cars are manufactured? >> >> And near/off to what? >> > > I don't know why port and starboard aren't used instead. Simples. And the difference being what? -- Malc Rusted and ropy. Dog-eared old copy. Vintage and classic, or just plain Jurassic: all words to describe me.
From: Simon Wilson on 8 Mar 2010 17:11 On 08/03/2010 22:03, Champ wrote: > > Who, I've just heard, will indeed be appearing in court. And, in the > meantime, have a bail restriction imposed on them which means they're > not allowed to associate. Whassat mean exactly then? I can't imagine them giving two hoots about it, whatever. -- /Simon
From: prawn on 8 Mar 2010 17:10
malc <malunspamwhite(a)blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: > prawn wrote: >> doetnietcomputeren <doesnotcompute(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> for the UK, or the countries for which most cars are manufactured? >>> >>> And near/off to what? >>> >> >> I don't know why port and starboard aren't used instead. Simples. > > And the difference being what? > They are unabiguously relative to the fore and aft of the vessel/vehicle. -- Leviticus 11:10 |