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

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by vatlark@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] Masterkraft0r@discuss.tchncs.de 102 points 1 month 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.

[–] TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Neat. Would be engineering related lol

[–] evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago

I’m gonna try this with my son, he knows with way clocks go better than his left and right.

[–] DisappointedVulcan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Da scheißt di au!

[–] Varcour@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Interesting. I learned it as "Wie die Ua, so gehts zua"