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> south of $50k "South" to mean down or below, and likewise for north, drives me up a wall. If you are standing at the south pole, north is down. There's also
by carabiner 3y ago
> south of $50k
"South" to mean down or below, and likewise for north, drives me up a wall. If you are standing at the south pole, north is down. There's also no concept of up/down in space, and so northern hemisphere normalcy is false. To Australians, North America is below!
- GlumWoodpecker 3y agoOn a conventionally oriented map, south is always down, and north is always up. "Down south" and "up north" are also very common phrases when discussing relative geographical locations, due to the same reason.
- EA-3167 3y agoUp a wall? Why not down a wall or across it?
- karaterobot 3y agoAnd yet you know exactly what they mean when they say it, indicating maybe it's a useful convention, even if imperfect.
- technothrasher 3y agoAnd if you turn around, left and right change places... woah. Snide comment aside, it's obviously in reference to standard map orientation. Maps had to be oriented somehow, unless you're advocating for the chaos of arbitrary individual map orientations.
- post-it 3y agoHaving trouble with figures of speech has been linked to schizophrenia. e.g. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00670/full https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.0067...
- prawn 3y agoI'm Australian and don't know anyone here who wouldn't consider North America "above". Can't imagine having the time to be that pedantic. Using "north of $50k" to describe something more expensive than $50k is very standard here too.