Re: [s-d] [s-b] Mackerel Transfer

["Mike McGann" <mike.mcgann@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 8, 2008 8:15 PM, 0x44 <bnomic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> Lay-persons say so, but neither accountants nor bankers do. As I stated
> in a response to Billy Pilgrim, the English language allows a house to
> burn up and down identically, obviously there is no innate idiomatic
> meaning that is unambiguous in the choice of "Up" or "Down".
> <http://lists.ellipsis.cx/mailman/listinfo/spoon-discuss>
>

To "go up in smoke" is idiomatic, to have "your balance to go down" is not.
Up and down is deduced from how we typically graph numerical values--it is
based from some actual meaning. From where I live, I would say that I'm
going up to New York or going down to Miami. The meaning of up and down is
deduced from the way we typically orient our maps where North is up and down
is South even if the Earth happens to be shaped like a torus.

- Hose
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