Comment on How did people refer to clockwise movement before the invention of the clock?
kuneho@lemmy.world 10 months agoThat’s true, but saying clockwise/anticlockwise also works with fixed perspective, unless the thing itself has a fixed orientation. butnifbthelat’s the case, left/right works the same.
FooBarrington@lemmy.world 10 months ago
No, it’s an extra level of confusion. Clockwise/counterclockwise only has one axis of confusion (looking from front or behind) with one option being the obvious default. Left/right have this axis AND the axis of top/bottom for confusion. It’s literally one bit more ambiguous.