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

[Mike]

> 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.

Mike:
Could your beltway possibly be around Washington, DC? That's where I 
encountered the terms "Inner loop" and "Outer loop". Which confused 
me to no end and for the longest time. Then I finally got it, the 
inner loop were those lanes towards the inside of the circle, or 
those traveling clockwise in your example. The outer loop travelled 
counter-clockwise around DC. I expected more traffic to be counter-
clockwise as I found most DC drivers to be counter-intuitive.

Of course, none of this helps your "go north" directional dilemma. 
Unless you sould get them to tell you whether you take the inner loop 
north, or the outer loop north. That is of course as long as they 
aren't confused by those terms like I was for so long.

Mike, who wants to play Joe Besser, the Little Lord Fauntleroy sissy 
on the Abbott and Costello TV show :-)