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When I was a kid in Minnesota we needed to learn port/starboard and the colors red/green. A trick that helped me remember is that "LEFT", "PORT", and "RED" are
by fargle 4y ago
When I was a kid in Minnesota we needed to learn port/starboard and the colors red/green.
A trick that helped me remember is that "LEFT", "PORT", and "RED" are all the shorter words and "RIGHT", "STARBOARD", and "GREEN" are the longer words in the respective pairs.
FWIW.
- zarzavat 4y agoI was taught the mnemonic “There’s no red port left in the bottle”. Port wine is red.
- fargle 4y agoNice. Except I prefer Tawny Port, but I'll still remember it.
- Biganon 4y agoI think "there's some red port left in the bottle" would be better ; the negation kinda made me think "red" (or "port") was NOT "left".
- tacticus 4y agoFrom memory the No Red Port Left is also about Red on Red passing for ships
- noxvilleza 4y agoPort wine (in a decanter) is also traditionally passed to the left when being poured.
- Infernal 4y agoI learned “right red dead” in aviation - if you see the red light right of the green light, it means the other plane is headed for you!
- bluefirebrand 4y agoThis would probably throw my girlfriend off. She has some kind of right/left dyslexia. When she's driving and I'm giving directions I have to tell her "short turn" or "long turn". Long turn being left, longer because it's across a lane, right turns are shorter. But if someone told her that left is shorter than right for remembering purposes, it would probably mess her up more when following driving directions.
- riffraff 4y agoHoly crap my wife is the same, I have to tell her "turn my way" or "turn your way". It drives me insane as I always subconsciously interpret it as a form of lazyness, your framing of it as a form od dyslexia may finally allow me to be less bothered by it!
- sebastialonso 4y agoThis sounds like a potentially dangerous condition to have if you drive, no? Is there a name for this?
- fargle 4y agoI was once driving along fine in the left lane and my female friend in the passenger seat suddenly yelled "TURN RIGHT HERE. RIGHT HERE! RIGHT HERE!!!" So I cut across two lanes, avoided several oncoming motorists and made a hasty but decent emergency right turn into the parking lot. She looked disgusted and said "Why did you do that? The place is RIGHT over there" and pointed to an area on the other side of the street on the left of where I'd been. "Why didn't you turn left RIGHT THERE WHEN I TOLD YOU TO!". Ah, I loved that girl (platonicly). She hit me with a shoe one time, but I still feel bad for who she married.
- m463 4y agoprobably not very politically correct anymore, but "You Write with your Right" (also righty tighty, lefty loosey)
- mikelward 4y agoIt's unfortunate that some headphones have a red "(R)" symbol to mark the right side, which is the opposite of the red = port convention.
- denton-scratch 4y agoLeft is larboard (starts with L), which isn't starboard. So starboard is right. When you're facing the prow, of course!
- croes 4y agoOr simply StaRRRboard is right
- evrimoztamur 4y agoPoRRRt!
- croes 4y agoNever heart an ORRR from a pirate.
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- deltarholamda 4y agoP.J. O'Rourke made the quip that "port wine is red, and so is your face if you get port and starboard mixed up." Which doesn't help, but it's funny. For sailors, we learn "red-right-returning," which means to keep the red aids to navigation on the right (starboard) side when returning to port. Which is great, except when it doesn't apply--parts of Europe, Australia, a lot of Asia. You'd think this would be a solved problem by now, but nope.