Which door is the right door and which is the left door?

Django · Post by **Django** » Sat Dec 16, 2017 9:23 pm

I hate to bring this back to life but it was bugging me a little and I think that the reason for it's ambiguity is because things do not have a left of right side. In drafting it is a right side view, not a right side. The side is generally an implied view rather than a physical part of the object. When we say an object's right side, that is generally from our normal perspective, so to make a long story over, my opinion is that a phonograph has a front, back, top and bottom and a side to the right and a side to the left from the perspective of the person using the phonograph, but a phonograph does not truly have a left or right side because left and right are in this case direction.

Post by **gramophone-georg** » Sat Dec 16, 2017 10:23 pm

Even more confusing... how did Edison decide which side of a Diamond Disc was the left or the right side?

Django · Post by **Django** » Sat Dec 16, 2017 10:32 pm

gramophone-georg wrote:Even more confusing... how did Edison decide which side of a Diamond Disc was the left or the right side?

At risk of having to go into hiding, my guess is that one of his machinists decided it and he took credit.

Post by **gramophone-georg** » Sat Dec 16, 2017 10:45 pm

Django wrote:
gramophone-georg wrote:Even more confusing... how did Edison decide which side of a Diamond Disc was the left or the right side?
At risk of having to go into hiding, my guess is that one of his machinists decided it an he took credit.

Post by **tomb** » Sun Dec 17, 2017 12:24 am

What is the left and right side of a TV? What is the left side and right side of a picture?? What is the left and right side of a clock?? Is it when we face it. Two more cents plus two more cents worth added...

JerryVan · Post by **JerryVan** » Sun Dec 17, 2017 3:05 pm

This "right" "left" controversy left me wondering who's right. By the time we know who's right, everyone else will have left. Am I right?

Django · Post by **Django** » Sun Dec 17, 2017 3:58 pm

JerryVan wrote:This "right" "left" controversy left me wondering who's right. By the time we know who's right, everyone else will have left. Am I right?

Best response yet.

Any way, according to Merriam Webster:

a : of, relating to, situated on, or being the side of the body which is away from the side on which the heart is mostly located
b : located nearer to the right hand than to the left
c : located to the right of an observer facing the object specified or directed as the right arm would point when raised out to the side
d : located on the right of an observer facing in the same direction as the object specified stage right (2) : located on the right when facing downstream the right bank of a river
e : done with the right hand a right hook to the jaw

It still appears to me that an object does not have a right or left side. If we want to clearly define which side was are speaking of, right and left is not really adequate, but most would probably guess correctly.

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