Asklemmy

44153 readers

1008 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
[email protected]: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_[email protected]~

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

478

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

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

311 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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?

Photo credit: https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Giy8OrYJTjw/Tfm9Ne5o5hI/AAAAAAAAAB4/c7uBLwjkl9c/s1600/scan0002.jpg

(page 3) 50 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Never heard it in Polish but we generally don't need a mnemonic to remember which side is left and which is right (except in politics).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

One mnemonic is to imagine yourself opening a jar.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (6 children)

I use the right hand rule - ball up your fist with your thumb sticking out, and turning in the direction of your fingers curling will result in the screw going the rest your thumb points.

load more comments (6 replies)

load more comments (2 replies)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Not aware of one in German.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

But we have: nach fest kommt ab!

Which translates like: after tight comes off

load more comments (3 replies)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Definitely nothing in Arabic AFAIK.

load more comments