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

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days 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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[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Not aware of one in German.

[–] whome@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 4 days ago (3 children)

But we have: nach fest kommt ab!

Which translates like: after tight comes off

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[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 4 points 4 days ago

Definitely nothing in Arabic AFAIK.

[–] gedhrel@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I think it's fairly parochial, and sounds quite infantile to me. Growing up (uk) we just used clockwise to tighten.

[–] gerdesj@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago

Have a chat with some plumbers, builders, chippies, sparkys or engineers - assuming you are not one already. I think "leftie loosey ..." is well known in the UK.

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