East and West vs. Left and Right

Tankaus@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world – 105 points –

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!

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Swapping the tabs would move them out of alphabetical order which would just end up annoying someone else.

Damn, you're right... this is more of an issue than I realized.

east is prob the default, too. and the default should be the left tab.

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.

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