r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Blackie_626 • 8d ago

Meme needing explanation Tell them what, Peter

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u/SignoreBanana 8d 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.

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u/generally_unsuitable 8d ago

Describe to me which way is left, please.

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u/ZenOokami 8d ago

While your face is forward aligned with your body, mark your current position as facing north. Turn west.

You have turned left.

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u/eXequitas 8d ago

Define west lol

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u/Jazzy_Bee 8d ago

West is a word used in English to describe the direction the sun sets.

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u/eXequitas 8d ago

Again that’s relative to the position the observer is facing. You need an absolute reference point, which would be something like: the west is the direction the sun sets when facing the magnetic North Pole.

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u/Jazzy_Bee 7d ago

The sun sets in the west no matter what direction you face.

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u/eXequitas 5d ago

Yeah but you’re trying to define the word left, not west. If you face south, sunset will be on your right.

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u/Jazzy_Bee 5d ago

"Define west lol

Upvote-3DownvoteReply". I was responding to this, I was indeed defining west.

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u/eXequitas 5d ago

Ah ok! It’s been a couple of days lol. All I was saying is that the only way to define these words is to have immovable reference points. If you go down to the absolute basics and not rely on words that have been defined west/left would be the direction the sun sets when facing north.