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[firewalker <firew4lker@xxxxxxxxx>]

How about Sun-wise?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1QbNL0VAVM

But then again it will be an issue for south hemisphere...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJo674TYGMs

Sore for the off topic!

On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 8:16 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Not sure English was a language before clocks.  Clocks have been around
> for a long time.
>
> On 7/18/2017 1:09 PM, firewalker wrote:
> > How about before clocks? :P :P :P
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 7:49 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx
> > <mailto: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
> >     >
> >
> >
>