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That's an, uh, extremely suspect phrasing there, school textbook (lemmy.world)
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[–] Aqarius@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah, but usually, the perspective matches the map perspective, so people expect west to be left. The fact that the sign is there at all points to the orientation being deliberately backwards.