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A bit off-topic, but when you think about it, it’s interesting how our vocabulary is shaped by gravity. I mean, why “vertically aligned” and not “horizontally
by k_sze 6y ago
A bit off-topic, but when you think about it, it’s interesting how our vocabulary is shaped by gravity.
I mean, why “vertically aligned” and not “horizontally aligned”, right? It’s not like the performance of the battery actually changes if you made it stand up or lie sideways.
Why are we expected to picture “vertically aligned” as |||, but “horizontally aligned” as ——, right? Could we have used different wording that is not influenced by our superfluous spatial perception?
- AnimalMuppet 6y agoWe want words to communicate, not to abstract robots or something, but to people. Shared experience helps with that. Gravity is a universally shared human experience. So we use words with that bias without even thinking. Should we change? Why? They communicate, which is the point of words.