And also decreasing. In any case, Merriam Webster online, Wikipedia, and the other places I looked on line define the crescent moon as either before 1st quarter or after last quarter which is the way I’ve always known it in English. What is the moon after last quarter called in Spanish?
Trying to see where the confusion is. I think what Ale was saying is that in the Southern Hemisphere, when the moon is waxing (crescent - from the Latin root meaning “to grow”), the bulge of the moon points to the left, as does the bulge of the letter “C”. Similarly, when the moon is waning (de-crescent - “ungrow”) the bulge of the moon points to the right, as does the bulge of the letter “D”.
If that is not what he meant, god help us all.
That must be a Southern Hemisphere thing, as up here in the NH, the ridge of the crescent during 1st quarter (waxing, right after New Moon), would match the curve of a “D” then the curve in the waning 4th quarter would match a “C”.
He may have rotated his head, but you just blew his mind!
Yes, that’s correct.
Catastrophe averted. 
Myself, I still haven’t figured out how people in the Southern Hemisphere keep from falling off the planet.
Glue.
I suspected as such.
No no no… we are more attractive. 
Absolutely! I was on a bus, traveling across the USA, thinking “East, East, East…”. I knew I was traveling West, but I was completely thrown by the strong feeling that I was traveling East. Then I looked down out of the bus, and realised that the shadow of the bus was on the wrong side. In Aus, when I travel West, the Sun is on my right, and my shadow is on my left.
And this is strange too! And it’s definitely weird in Alice Springs. The crescent moon points towards the sun, and the crescent moon lies down and points towards the horizon. I never noticed a difference between N/S hemisphere, but the difference between Chicago and Darwin in strikingly obvious.
Here’s a photo I took from my balcony a few months ago, the Moon setting over Bangkok, it’s not always so horizontal because, AFAIK, the terminator angle depends on the Earth’s tilt relative to the Sun.
Go to that point on earth where the moon is directly overhead. Call this point X. Now draw a circle on the earth with a radius of 5000 miles centered on point X. Any person standing on that circle will view the moon, slightly differently, about 15 degrees above the horizon. If you could get into a jet plane and fly clockwise along that circle, the moon would be directly to your right and remain on your right, 15 degrees above the horizon, as you flew the entire circle. If you just looked at the moon, the moon would appear to rotate one complete rotation as you flew the circle.
We’ve already done this. See my post from an earlier thread for a simple illustration.