[87412] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Klingon Draydels
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark J. Reed)
Wed Dec 2 12:57:31 2009
In-Reply-To: <f60fe000912020952x30442393v45c62c5f2471550b@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 12:56:11 -0500
From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@gmail.com>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@gmail.com> wrote:
> On the ones I've seen the order does indeed match the sentence - right
> to left, to match the direction of Hebrew writing. So in the
> counterclockwise direction as seen from the top they are in order NUN
> GIMEL HE SHIN (except with PE instead of SHIN on Israeli dreidels).
Man, that still came out wrong.
If you look down from the top of the dreidel and touch the four sides
of the square in *clockwise* order, you get the correct sequence. What
I meant above was that if you *spin* the dreidel counterclockwise
while looking from the side, they will appear in the proper order.
-marqoS
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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@gmail.com>
