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@KleinerWuuki @sarahbecan I *think* (but don’t know) that the historical background for the German saying is this:

General technical norms (eg. which way to thread a screw) only really began to be established when the German states were unified into the Reich in 1871.

Before that, most states would have had their own norms, or none at all.

19 Apr 2023 at 15:02 | Wall-to-wall | Open on chaos.social
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Angel

@slothrop @sarahbecan That certainly sounds plausible. But whether it is exactly like that, I unfortunately don't know either.

19 Apr 2023 at 15:13 | Open on troet.cafe
Vik

@KleinerWuuki
Of course this does not verify it, but I got the same explanation. The Deutsche Reich was the first county (in Central Europe) to establish norms for things like screws.
@slothrop @sarahbecan

19 Apr 2023 at 15:50 | Open on literatur.social
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