Why do some people struggle to tell left from right (continued)?
Bob Ladd, Edinburgh, UK None of the previous answers to this question stepped outside a broadly European frame of reference, which takes for granted that left and right are part of the natural order of the world. Advertisement There are plenty of languages and cultures that don’t use these concepts, including many that use “geocentric” rather than “egocentric” phrases to talk about spatial relations, for example, “to the east of you” rather than “to your left”. As long as everyone shares the frame of reference, either system works fine. Bob McCrossin, Cooroy, Queensland, Aus...