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[gfish]

Who else gets slightly annoyed when people don't use the correct map-relative direction (up->north, down->south, over->east/west) when talking about large-scale geography? From Seattle I can head up to Vancouver, down to Portland, or over to Spokane. Period.

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[hsifyppah.livejournal.com]

I once really pissed someone off by using them - huge crazy rant about how arrogant Canadians are calling US "down." Whee!

I don't feel very strongly about it, but I have been very charmed on the couple of occasions I've heard Australian visitors use the inverse convention. <3

[tithonium.livejournal.com]

Well, I can't agree with the canadian point of view, per se, but I certainly would argue that the up/north down/south view IS extremely northern-hemisphere-centric and a byproduct of eurasian colonialism. If we'd learned in school about how Washington crossed the Amazon to fight the redcoats and throw off the yolk of Australian oppression, we'd be talking about up/south and down/north.