I was having a chat with some friends and we were talking about how, in the U.S. at least, washers are usually on the left and dryers on the right and why that might be. Someone pointed out that we wash first and then we dry. But then someone else pointed out that we are sort of primed to think in left-to-right terms already since that’s the direction in which we read. So here is my question:

Are washers usually on the right and dryers on the left in the Middle East?

  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    I suspect it has more to do with handedness- which is also partly why English and most western languages are written left-to-right in part because western writing systems were developed after ink or paint became the dominate means of writing over, for example, cuneiform clay or wax tablets. The reason for the switch was that ink would smudge in left-to-right.

    In that regard, it might be “easier” to move things from left to right for most people (sorry lefties,) also most manufactures set it up to be moved in that direction and arrange the hinges to be set on that; and while it probably doesn’t really matter, it’s the order they went with. (for the record, you usually can have the doors swapped if you need to.)

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      8 days ago

      (sorry lefties,)

      Now I wonder, as a lefty, if this is why I always hate the time I have to put everything in the dryer?