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

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by vatlark to c/[email protected]

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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] 56 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

In Dutch we have DROL, Dicht recht, open links. So close right, open left as a very strict translation. But DROL is also Dutch for turd.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

A droll factoid.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Never heard of that, I just remembered from my dad that clockwise is tight and counterclockwise is loose.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Same here, except for my dad, he is clumsy as hell.

[–] Taalnazi 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Huh, I always say links los, rechts rotsvast

Edit: or, this: links verlost, rechts rekent in