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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] 103 points 2 months 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] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Neat. Would be engineering related lol

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Da scheißt di au!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

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