The earliest memory of me playing a video game was some kids game where you had to water flowers to the left, right, etc. I remember being confused by it so I wrote left and right (or rather some scribblings) on a piece of paper so I could use it as reference.
It’s reft and light
I hate that I’m saying this, but this would be handy for my wife. Except like, correct, ya know?
Picture is edited. She did it right, I mean her tattoo maker wanted to get paid ofc.
I mean, if it works, it works.
looks at pic
shrugs
Right?Right?
Do you mean Left?
No, your other left
Cosmo and Wanda hanging out on the thumbs, you can’t fool me this time
just make em a little thicker and it can be port and starboard
Nah, all need to do for that is remember the port and left are both four letter words.
Front = Bow, fore
Back = Stern, aft
If you don’t get it right, I’ll throw your ass out the little round window on the side!
but which side??!??!?
Why do we need a different word for left and right when we ready have the words left and right?
Because port/starboard refers to the left/right side of the ship, regardless how the person orientated. If you are facing the front of the ship, then yes, port = left. If you are facing the back of the ship, port = right. So it is very handy to have words that always refer to the same part of the ship.
(All the other terms, like front/bow and stern/rear, who cares? I dunno.)
If I turn my head around and look backwards the right and left side of my body don’t change. It’s always in relation to the front of me.
If I referred to something being on the right side or left side of my car, anyone would know which side I meant.
your car also has a left and right side / driver’s right and driver’s left, mechanics are often looking at the engine bay from the front looking back so left is their right.
Actually the sides of a car would be referred to as the driver and the passenger sides of the car, but if I said left and right side everyone would know what I was talking about.
In a car, sure, since 99% of the seats face the front. Same for an airplane. Left is left, right is right.
How would you do that with for instance a classic rowboat? Then your left is on the right side, no matter how you turn your head?
I never really understand nautical terms. Wall? No, that’s a bulkhead. Port, left, starboard, right. Bow, front, aft, rear. There are so many more, and I truly believe it is just to show who’s a sailor and who isn’t. (I also enjoy every time Dresden makes fun of this then slowly starts to do it himself)
Playstation controller prompts with L/R solved this issue for me in English, but on my main language the directions are called “Sağ/Sol” which I still sometimes get wrong
Which language is that? I want to check the etymology.
Turkish
Turkish apparently
i think you got it wrong there again :p
To me it worked with mouse clicks. Right click does X left click does Y. The mouses right is the same as my right.
Holy shit, the comments on this post have me worried for you all.
I hear that all the time.
My wife has a freckle on her right hand. It’s the only way she can tell left from right. Ask her for directions and watch her eyes check the back of her hands.
I still hold my fingers in the L shape like I was taught as a kid to figure it out a lot of the time!
I tried this but im dyslexic so it didnt help much
I’m not even dyslexic but remembering which direction a letter goes in just on its own is lowkey so hard. I’d never mess it up in normal writing but ask me what direction the letter L or R goes in, and I’ll have to think for an embarrassing amount of time. Or even worse, lower case D and lower case B. I do actually mess those up if I think too hard about them. Oh and I get N confused sometimes too, but that’s just because technically Russian is my native language and the Cyrillic alphabet is all kinds of fucked up.
Friend you might be dyslexic xD
Its pdbq and nu for me
My daughter is learning to write and gets about half her numbers backwards. After I’ve corrected her on a 2, a 3, and a 7, I’ll look at a six and genuinely not know which way it’s supposed to face.
I know two people who have done the same thing. Both are blonde and named Matilda.
Your left hand makes an L with your thumb and forefinger
🎵 I was LOOKIN’ kinda dumb with my FINGER and my thumb in the SHAPE of an L on my forehead 🎵
Your left hand is where your thumb is on the right.
Looks at palm of hand to check
I’m afraid the people who struggle to tell left from right apart will also have a problem remembering which way the letter L bends
Is the backwards L used in any languages?
In Japanese, the right quotation symbol is one: 」
Surprisingly, there isn’t one in Korean but there is a gamma for the k/g consonance: ㄱWow, that’s not a gamma at all. Apparently I need a tattoo of my own. Instead, Japanese once again comes to rescue with left quotation as gamma: 「Mandarin doesn’t have anything remotely like this.
not that I’m aware of. Γ (gamma) is sort of like an upside down L
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…Well, the years start comin’ and they don’t stop comin’
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I’ve made my own words for left and right using the image of the sun and shadows.
In Gaja we can see that shadows moves in one direction. We can call this direction sunwise. We can call the other other direction counter. So in fern to determine whether what is sunwise and counter, we have to know a little bit about the sun.
In this image, we can say that the hitten, that which is being hit, will always see their shadow move sunwise. The opposite direction would be counter.
What about at or beyond the equator from the language’s native region?
Does her left thumb have a frowney face on the thumbnail?
