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The world has a lot of different standards for a lot of things, but I have never heard of a place with the default screw thread direction being opposite.
So does each language have a fun mnemonic?
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I can't think of an equivalent phrase in Bulgarian for that, but it's known that [most] threads tighten when turning clockwise... and if you don't know what direction the clock goes, what are you even doing with screws or bolts...
And again there are special cases even outside of threads - for example in plumbing there are some valves that are open when the handle is parallel to the pipe and closed when the handle is perpendicular - and it might just happen that the closing motion happens counterclockwise.
reverse threads are also found on things like bicycles and cars which have parts that spin counter clockwise
"Eins og kókflaska" or "Same as a Coca Cola bottle", not universal in Iceland though
Uuuh, upwards? :D
Just like the screws ;D
The German version as actually survived its original time frame: "So lang das Deutsche Reich besteht, wird Schraube fest nach rechts gedreht" - "As long as the German Reich exists, a screw is tightened by turning right"
So ... shouldn't German screws now turn to the left?
Nar. A statement and its converse are not equivalent.
See!!! This is why communism is bad!! Since you’ve started turning everything to the left, it’s all come apart!!
Never heard of this. We say 'auf links, rechts zu' and simply order the words alphabetically
yeah, this one is only for inside voice. I won't be teaching it to anyone anymore.
I'm German, and I've never heard that before. I'd be seriously weirded out by someone saying that or teaching it to their kids
I have to admit that this is rather old. So old, in fact, that it does not refer to the Third Reich but the Kaiserreich.
