¶ Up-and-Down Language
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Up-and-Down Language:
“If he persists in the up-and-down language man may never communicate accurately with other men for they do not employ the same meanings, either from moment to moment, or in respect to their individual ‘ups’ and ‘downs.’ Only when man learns to say ‘in’ and ‘out’ relative to designated common centers (for example, of Earth) is the meaning constantly reliable. The sky is outward to all men, at all places, at all times, on any planet. While enjoying an infinity of individual ‘ins,’ we, anywhere in the Universe, also enjoy one common nonsimultaneous, omnidirectional aggregate called ‘out.’”
