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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Little known fact: no object prior to the invention of the clock had
ever rotated before, so words for this before then were not required~~~

On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 08:09:52PM +0300, firewalker wrote:
> How about before clocks? :P :P :P
> 
> On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 7:49 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > 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
> > >
> >