Donn Cave writes:
On Feb 17, 2008, at 1:12 AM, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
And left is not the opposite of correct. That would be incorrect. ... If it's any consolation to those of the left handed persuasion, I guessed it wrong - I have used Either in this way, but Left was Success and Right was Failure. I don't enjoy puns, and mapped to an A/B form it seemed obvious that Success is A.
Weellll, for those who don't enjoy puns, but feel that the life and everything is one enormous pun, a political reminder. For many years, the world is composed of Leftists and Rightists (let's for the moment forget the normal people). Those from the Left always felt that they were right, and that those from the Right should not be left unpunished, while those from the Right thought that those from the Left should be left to die. Even if it seems right to consider that these deviations should be left to historians, we should not forget that at the beginning of the glorious Soviet country there was a proposal to change the meaning of traffic lights. Red would mean "Forward!!". On the other hand, in France nowadays the difference between Right and Left is more or less the same as between "Immediate failure" and "Delayed failure". Choose yourselves which is which. Jerzy Karczmarczuk