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

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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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[–] kionite231@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We have that in Gujarati "navde nokhu satde sajjad"

[–] vatlark@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Google translated it as "Nine days and seven days are tight".

Does that sound like a good translation to you?

[–] kionite231@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No it's more like "lose like nine and tight like seven". It works because of the way Gujarati numerals are structured.

[–] vatlark@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That's interesting, thank you. I didn't know anything about Gujarati, this is a cool opportunity to learn!

Edit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gujarati_numerals