• Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 days ago

    I can tell which way is west in my own language, but for some reason I have trouble translating east and west between languages. Eventually I just associated English “west” with “the wild west” and think about the direction from which native Americans would defend themselves as being west. Then I think what that direction is in my language to get the word for it.