Upside-down halves

Posted Feb 6, 2024 18:03 UTC (Tue) by antiphase (subscriber, #111993)
In reply to: Upside-down halves by intelfx
Parent article: The end of tasklets

top is synonymous with highest or uppermost, as in they are superlative-like; similarly (but reversed) for bottom/lowest/lowermost.

higher/lower are comparative and don't indicate an absolute position, although you can argue that top and bottom are relative to one another as well.

Ah, English.

Upside-down halves

Posted Feb 6, 2024 21:41 UTC (Tue) by intelfx (subscriber, #130118) [Link]

That seems correct, but I was rather making a different point. I learned these words in different contexts, and so it simply doesn't "click" in my brain that top/bottom is "almost like higher/lower". These words are "in different parts of my brain", that's why I never experienced the confusion described in the sibling thread.