Re: [tied] Re: Loans, Slavs, Church (it was : Walachians are placed

On 05-01-03 12:07, Miguel Carrasquer wrote:

> Ah, you have that too... I wonder if there's a name for
> this phenomenon: the confusion of binary categories where
> the two members are of course completely opposite, but
> nothing would really change of we inversed the categories
> (or is it: the names for them). I always confuse left and
> right, east and west, north and south, proterodynamic and
> hysterodynamic... Although I usually have no trouble with
> up and down, yesterday and tomorrow... Maybe because
> physical law (gravity, thermodynamics) is involved in the
> latter cases to help me tell them apart.

I've seen "reversal errors" as a general term for such mistakes. As long
as you don't confuse right and _wrong_ there's nothing to worry about ;-)

Piotr