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Port and starboard
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So you just collectively agree that left is the ships left while you're on the ship.
Problem solved.
The left is always the ship's left, just like the left side of a car is always the left side of a car.
Except we say drivers/passengers side when referring to the side of a car. People dislike port because they can't remember it from lack of use. Insecurities cause this whole discussion.
I don't use it often at all, but when I was 6, I just remembered left/port had 4 letters and haven't forgotten yet. Some day I might, but me forgetting doesn't mean I should ask everyone else to stop using language.
E.g. I have a plethora of grapes. We should stop using the term plethora because they could just say "a lot."
That reminds me of the old joke:
A widow was holding a funeral for her husband, when a man asked if he could say a word. "Of course" said the widow, so he stood up and exclaimed "plethora!". The widow replied "thanks, that means a lot".