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

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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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evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world
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In English, there’s also “clockwise-lockwise”. It makes more sense than talking about left and right.

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

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