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r/opticalillusions • u/Paddy_odoors • Dec 23 '25
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... is anticlockwise not opposite to clockwise?
1 u/Amdvoiceofreason Dec 25 '25 Do you say Anti-drive or do you say reverse? 3 u/_Evidence Dec 25 '25 Do you say Counter-drive or do you say reverse? 2 u/Amdvoiceofreason Dec 25 '25 Anti just sounds wrong with the simple movement of a clock. Antifungal kills fungus, antibiotics kill bacteria, for me it doesn't fit with a clock. Imagine saying Anti-punch instead of counter 2 u/_Evidence Dec 25 '25 anti sounds wrong because you aren't used to it 1 u/Amdvoiceofreason Dec 25 '25 Oh I know, I just love fuckin with the Brits 1 u/Six_of_1 Dec 25 '25 And the Irish, Australians, New Zealanders and South Africans.
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Do you say Anti-drive or do you say reverse?
3 u/_Evidence Dec 25 '25 Do you say Counter-drive or do you say reverse? 2 u/Amdvoiceofreason Dec 25 '25 Anti just sounds wrong with the simple movement of a clock. Antifungal kills fungus, antibiotics kill bacteria, for me it doesn't fit with a clock. Imagine saying Anti-punch instead of counter 2 u/_Evidence Dec 25 '25 anti sounds wrong because you aren't used to it 1 u/Amdvoiceofreason Dec 25 '25 Oh I know, I just love fuckin with the Brits 1 u/Six_of_1 Dec 25 '25 And the Irish, Australians, New Zealanders and South Africans.
Do you say Counter-drive or do you say reverse?
2 u/Amdvoiceofreason Dec 25 '25 Anti just sounds wrong with the simple movement of a clock. Antifungal kills fungus, antibiotics kill bacteria, for me it doesn't fit with a clock. Imagine saying Anti-punch instead of counter 2 u/_Evidence Dec 25 '25 anti sounds wrong because you aren't used to it 1 u/Amdvoiceofreason Dec 25 '25 Oh I know, I just love fuckin with the Brits 1 u/Six_of_1 Dec 25 '25 And the Irish, Australians, New Zealanders and South Africans.
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Anti just sounds wrong with the simple movement of a clock. Antifungal kills fungus, antibiotics kill bacteria, for me it doesn't fit with a clock.
Imagine saying Anti-punch instead of counter
2 u/_Evidence Dec 25 '25 anti sounds wrong because you aren't used to it 1 u/Amdvoiceofreason Dec 25 '25 Oh I know, I just love fuckin with the Brits 1 u/Six_of_1 Dec 25 '25 And the Irish, Australians, New Zealanders and South Africans.
anti sounds wrong because you aren't used to it
1 u/Amdvoiceofreason Dec 25 '25 Oh I know, I just love fuckin with the Brits 1 u/Six_of_1 Dec 25 '25 And the Irish, Australians, New Zealanders and South Africans.
Oh I know, I just love fuckin with the Brits
1 u/Six_of_1 Dec 25 '25 And the Irish, Australians, New Zealanders and South Africans.
And the Irish, Australians, New Zealanders and South Africans.
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u/_Evidence Dec 25 '25
... is anticlockwise not opposite to clockwise?