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[firewalker <firew4lker@xxxxxxxxx>]

How about before clocks? :P :P :P

On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 7:49 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

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> On 7/18/2017 12:26 PM, firewalker wrote:
> >
> >
> >     This probably should be left to the knowledge of the translators
> rather
> >     than try to come up with an English string that works in all cases
> >     (which is doubtful).  I would think someone translating "clockwise"
> and
> >     "counter clockwise" to Greek would use your "rightwise" and
> "leftwise"
> >     translations.  I'm assuming that is how the direction of a clock's
> >     movement is defined in Greek.
> >
> >
> > This is correct. We rarely use the clock's hands to indicate direction
> > of rotation.
> >
> > We say that the hands of a clocks move in a righwise manner. Αcording to
> the
> > Right-Hand rule. How someone describes the movements of the clock in
> > English?
>
> English is just as described above, "clockwise" and "counter clockwise".
>  This is why translation is tricky.  The Greek should be translated into
> the words for "rightwise" and "leftwise" you proposed rather than the
> more wordy definition that you defined that is the literal meaning of
> "clockwise" and "counter clockwise".
>
> > I guess using Chirality? Left-Handiness and Right-Handiness? So
> > Left-hand and
> > Right-hand rotation?  :D :D :D
> >
>