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Comment by withinboredom

21 hours ago

“The right socket” can only be implied one way when talking about a body just like you only have one right hand despite the fact that it is on my left when looking at you.

I think the fact that anyone in this thread thinks it's ambiguous is proof by definition that it's ambiguous.

"Right hand" is practically a bigram that has more meaning, since handedness is such a common topic.

Also context matters, if you're talking to someone you would say "right shoulder" for _their_ right since you know it's an observer with different vantage point. Talking about a scene in a photo "the right shoulder" to me would more often mean right portion of the photo even if it was the person's left shoulder.

Having one person in the frame isn't enough to unambiguously put us into the "talking about a body" context.