Hey Ab-botttttttttttt (was Re: The same language with different words

[potioncat]

> Carol responds:
> Oh, dear. I seem to have been completely misunderstood in my recent
> playful posts.

Potioncat:
Happens to me all the time.

> Carol, imagining a "who's on first" style conversation beginning, "I
> turn left, right?"


Potioncat:
I live near a city off a major interstate. The interstate highway makes 
a big circle around the city. If the circle is a clockface, I live near 
6 O'Clock. So it drives me crazy when directions start off, "Go north 
on the Beltway." Either way is north for me--but the wrong north could 
take me miles away from where I want to go. No one seems to understand 
my confusion!

Potioncat---certain that she's Costello to Carol's Abbott.