Asklemmy

43989 readers

1128 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]

472

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

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (2 children)

We used to have one: "Solang das deutsche Reich besteht wird jede Schraube rechts gedreht." ("As long as the German Empire persists every screw is turned right.")

Given that the German Empire failed spectacularly, this sentence isn't very popular anymore.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I know it as "Seitdem das Deutsche Reich besteht wird die Schraube rechts gedreht" ("Since the German Reich was founded, the screw has been turned to the right"), I always assumed it was because many things were standardized between the German states after unification and that this was one of these things, but I can't find any reference to that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I have never heard that before this thread, possibly because I was born in Austria decades after the name "Deutsches Reich" was abolished.