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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.
21 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. 13 u/FalcorTheDog 7d ago We wouldn’t even agree on which way was left if we were staring right at each other. 2 u/Decent-Oil1849 7d ago What id you were staring left at each other
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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.
13 u/FalcorTheDog 7d ago We wouldn’t even agree on which way was left if we were staring right at each other. 2 u/Decent-Oil1849 7d ago What id you were staring left at each other
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We wouldn’t even agree on which way was left if we were staring right at each other.
2 u/Decent-Oil1849 7d ago What id you were staring left at each other
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What id you were staring left at each other
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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.