▲ 105 ▼ East and West vs. Left and Right (lemmy.world) submitted 3 years ago* by Tankaus@lemmy.world to c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world 16 comments fedilink hide all child comments Google's results for sports standings has Eastern Conference on the left and Western Conference on the right and it bothers me to no end!
[–] lechatron@lemmy.today 25 points 3 years ago (5 children) Swapping the tabs would move them out of alphabetical order which would just end up annoying someone else. permalink fedilink source hideshow 10 child comments replies: [+] NotBadAndYou@ttrpg.network 8 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent [–] Tankaus@lemmy.world [S] 4 points 3 years ago Damn, you're right... this is more of an issue than I realized. permalink fedilink source parent [–] ares35@kbin.social 4 points 3 years ago east is prob the default, too. and the default should be the left tab. permalink fedilink source parent [–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago Also, and probably related to that, people generally say "east and west" rather than "west and east". Similarly, "north and south" rather than "south and north". In both cases the latter version just sounds wrong somehow. permalink fedilink source parent [–] ultra@discuss.online 1 point 3 years ago* Obligatory XKCD (edit: I forgor how to embed images in markdown) permalink fedilink source parent
[+] NotBadAndYou@ttrpg.network 8 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Tankaus@lemmy.world [S] 4 points 3 years ago Damn, you're right... this is more of an issue than I realized. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ares35@kbin.social 4 points 3 years ago east is prob the default, too. and the default should be the left tab. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago Also, and probably related to that, people generally say "east and west" rather than "west and east". Similarly, "north and south" rather than "south and north". In both cases the latter version just sounds wrong somehow. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ultra@discuss.online 1 point 3 years ago* Obligatory XKCD (edit: I forgor how to embed images in markdown) permalink fedilink source parent
