Quote Originally Posted by Fynlar View Post
Also the only reason I know about port and starboard is because of video games. School never taught me that, possibly because schools aren't interested in teaching nautical terminology.
Oddly enough, I do remember learning about this in school... in gym class. Back in my old elementary school, they had the four sides of the gym named for each of the four directions and we played games on occasion involving moving to those specific sides. It didn't work very well, though, as I definitely forgot all about them beyond "those are ship terms" after that and we never covered it again.