- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2011 12:18:56 -0700
- To: Brian Manthos <brianman@microsoft.com>
- CC: "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On 08/04/2011 11:41 AM, Brian Manthos wrote: > Fantasai: >> Use topward and bottomward. That way at least it'll make more sense for non-English speakers, who don't have to equate "up" with "top". > > We're not talking about locations. We're talking about directions. It's a general-use suffix that turns things into a direction. http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/ward_4 OED lists "aftward", "airward", "bankward", "barnward", "beachward", "bedward", "bridgeward", "childward", "cloudward", "coastward", "couchward" "creekward" ... > Also, I've never heard "topward" or "bottomward" written or said in my > lifetime until now. Are they even words? If couchward is a word, I think topward should be allowed to be a word. :) ~fantasai
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