Was there an alternative adjective to “clockwise” other than “the rotation you take around left hand”?

Also, how did all watch companies around the world agree on what the direction of “clockwise” is?

  • loke
    7•1 year ago

    In Swedish it’s called medsols and motsols. The iteral translation is with the sun and against the sun.

    • @idiomaddict@feddit.de
      4•1 year ago

      Is there a large perceptible pronunciation difference? Because if not med and mot being opposites seems like it’s rife for sitcom hijinks

        • @idiomaddict@feddit.de
          4•1 year ago

          Thank you! That makes sense, I forgot north Germanic languages don’t do final devoicing. In German, the d would be pronounced as /t/ in that position.

          • Karyoplasma
            1•1 year ago

            You rarely hear voiced plosives in spoken German in general. Negative VOTs are virtually unheard of. The distinction would be more accurate if described as aspirated/unaspirated than unvoiced/voiced.

            I guess what I wanna say is that German 'd’s are most likely gonna be realized as /t/, no matter where they occur in the utterance.