Comment on Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)?
Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 2 months agoBut that isn’t enough.
Try all the 16 possibilities and then see how many “antis” you really need there.
Comment on Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)?
Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 2 months agoBut that isn’t enough.
Try all the 16 possibilities and then see how many “antis” you really need there.
1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
In all cases, 2 at most.
North North-north-east North-east North-east-east East Anti-north-east-east Anti-north-east Anti-north-north-east (south-north-east is impossible so the second anti would be redundant) Anti-north anti-east-anti-north-north (reversed word order to distinguish it further) Anti-east-anti-north Anti-east-east-anti-north Anti-east Anti-east-east-north Anti-east-north Anti-east-north-north
Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 2 months ago
These extra complications make it even more unusable that the anti thing itself LOL
1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
I was assuming a conlang situation where “north” referred more to the axis, rather than the direction.
Anti-north-north would be more “reversed-vertical-vertical” meaning it’s reversed vertical (south), and closer to the vertical axis than the horizontal axis. North would just be “vertical” without being reversed.
Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 2 months ago
I don’t know what you are even talking about (and too lazy to put it into a translator now).
But I know that North and South are terms that must be usable for everybody. So, especially for such people who don’t know what you are even talking about.