strathspey@strathspey.org:47274

Andrea Re

Re: Pilling diagrams

Dec. 4, 2006, 2:33 p.m. (Message 47274, in reply to message 47273)

Sophie Rickebusch ha scritto:
> Selon Andrea Re <xxxxxx.xx@xxxxxx.xxx>:
>
>   
>> After years of being unable to remember which symbol meant cast and
>> which meant dance/lead, quite recently it dawned on me that those
>> symbols are drawn from the lady's point of view. So if you look at the
>> diagram, the lady is casting behind her line and if she is
>> dancing/leading up/down she dances towards the the middle.
>>     
>
> Quite, but why do that when all the rest is written from the man's point of
> view? Is it some cunning ploy to confuse those who are not "in the know" (keep
> the riff-raff out, as Basil Fawlty would say)? Or is it just random
> inconsistency?
>
>   
Sorry, my fault. What I meant to say is that the man is looking at what 
the lady is doing ;-) .

Andrea (who doesn't know HIS right from HIS left :-D )