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@atatassault @sarahbecan if you rotate a screw around so the head faces away from you (or, more likely, if you are unscrewing something on the other side of something) that also reverses clockwise/counterclockwise. The ambiguity still exists. This is frequently confusing to people and it would be just as confusing with your reframing. There's simply no way to know how to loosen a given screw without the ability to visualize its spacial relation to you. 3 comments
@atatassault @sarahbecan This is an entirely arbitrary rule you've just made up  @someonetellmetosleep @sarahbecan "This is an entirely arbitrary rule you've just made up" You're starting to sound like a right winger who says words don't have inherent meaning. Where do you think the "clock" in clockwise comes from? Actually, nevermind, don't answer that. I don't need to see another comment from a person who says that I'm making up meaning that has existed for hundreds of years. |
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@someonetellmetosleep @sarahbecan
Clockwise is named after literal clocks. The frame of reference is not ambiguous. It is always the face of the clock/manipulated object.