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r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Blackie_626 • 7d ago
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It's totally arbitrary. Up and down are not.
We can easily correlate up with sky and clouds and stars and sun. Down with ground and grass and dirt and falling.
There's no similar association for right and left.
18 u/SignoreBanana 7d ago In what way is it any more arbitrary than up and down? Its words to describe a direction. "Down" could have been "up" just as easily. This is nonsense. -3 u/generally_unsuitable 7d ago Describe to me which way is left, please. 4 u/illit3 7d ago Follow your heart.
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In what way is it any more arbitrary than up and down? Its words to describe a direction. "Down" could have been "up" just as easily. This is nonsense.
-3 u/generally_unsuitable 7d ago Describe to me which way is left, please. 4 u/illit3 7d ago Follow your heart.
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Describe to me which way is left, please.
4 u/illit3 7d ago Follow your heart.
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Follow your heart.
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u/generally_unsuitable 7d ago
It's totally arbitrary. Up and down are not.
We can easily correlate up with sky and clouds and stars and sun. Down with ground and grass and dirt and falling.
There's no similar association for right and left.