Comment on Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)?

• 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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

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  • Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Anti-north-north-east (south-north-east is impossible so the second anti would be redundant)

    These extra complications make it even more unusable that the anti thing itself LOL

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    • 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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      • Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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