• ddh@lemmy.sdf.org
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    2 months ago

    The Spanish version is my favourite: la derecha oprime y la izquierda libera (the right oppresses and the left liberates)

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      2 months ago

      Holy shit, fucking hell, now this is some goddamn wordplay!

      I’m stealing this like the fucking British Museum.

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      2 months ago

      I don’t speak Spanish, but is there a reason this works well as a mnemonic? Like is there a reason you can’t misremember it as la izquierda oprime y la derecha libera? Because the English phrase works by alliteration.

      Edit: i guess if you think of it in terms of politics that helps

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      2 months ago

      I had never heard that before. Is that a region or country-specific thing?

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        2 months ago

        Definitely not a common phrase. I’ve never heard of it (from Spain) and I just asked about 10 others from other countries and only one has. We usually would just say clockwise or counterclockwise

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      2 months ago

      I think I saw that on reddit 2years ago, thank you for reminding me how’s the actual saying (I ~have adopted ever since I saw it, lol)