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Does each language have "lefty loosey righty tighty"? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (11 children)

The Right Hand Rule (RHR). Point the thumb of your right hand in the direction you want something to go. Curl your fingers. That is the direction of rotation. Translate to any language which has hands.

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[–] [email protected] 159 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The right oppresses, the left liberates

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

I remember it as right hand screw rule

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago (3 children)

We have that in Gujarati "navde nokhu satde sajjad"

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The only one I know of is "open counter clockwise", but after consuming too much media in English I use "righty tighty...".

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago

I use "Clock-in, counter-out"

[–] [email protected] 98 points 4 days ago (3 children)

In austrian german dialect, "Mit da Ua, draht ma zua." which in standard german would be "Mit der Uhr, dreht man zu." and in english "With the clock, turn it closed." or something like that.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Neat. Would be engineering related lol

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago (1 children)

In English, there's also "clockwise-lockwise". It makes more sense than talking about left and right.