In Germany we have the letter U but we call it by the real name “Kehrtwende”
Just for context, the word Kehrtwende is not used often. Instead, the verb “wenden” is used the sense of “making a U-turn”
Is that the real name for the letter U? damn
The fuck did you just call me?
Beruhig dich…
What does that translate to?
kehrt -> return wende -> turn
A re-turn?
re turn turn
Knowing the Germans, probably “extra long and bent letter I”
Why is kehrtwende the real name? Doesn’t it basically just mean “turn around”?
Yes it does, why make it more complicated?
“U-turn” isn’t more complicated, it’s describing the motion literally: making a U-shaped turn
I see you’re not very familiar with German culture.
We Germans are all about efficiency.
In Hebrew, it’s a horseshoe turn.
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In countries without horses…
The Romans must have called it a V-turn
A five turn?
How is this not the top comment??
We call it a 180.
As in 180 degrees turn.
We call it something like ‘half circle turn’.
In France we call it a half turn
Which language is that in?
Dutch. But the variant we speak in Flanders (Vlaams).
Stupid, sexy, Flanders.
Yeah, infamousbelgian, which language is that in? /s
Edits: How the hell do I link a user in Lemmy?
We actually have 3 official languages in our (small) country. Dutch (Flemish), French (Walloon) and German :)
You should see the the folks in Beijing make a 欲-turn.
We call it a horseshoe turn
Even though the letter U is definitely existing in the vocabulary, in Italian it is called “elbow turn” (curva a gomito)!
Italian… “elbow turn”
I’d be willing to bet that when they say elbow they mean the pasta.
Thank you for making me discover elbow pasta! It deepens my conviction that everything in Italy is somehow related to pasta…
Letters aren’t part of vocabulary though?
How do they not get it confused with elbow pasta?
Confusingly enough, in Italy I believe it is not quite a thing “elbow pasta”. Personally I have never heard anyone refer to any kind of pasta as “gomiti”, though Google showed me that they indeed exist. I have always heard the ones that looks like elbows in other names.
In Chinese doing an u-turn can be called 掉头 or 调头, literal translation would be lose head (or front) or change head (front). For whatever reason apparently both can be used.
But the symbol still makes sense
My language doesn’t has U, but we call it U turn anyway, even though we have a similar letter in our own language.
You don’t need an alphabet to design what may as well be modern day hieroglyphics.
The name U turn itself is dumb anyways (alongside shit like T-shirt, I kid you not I tought my english teacher was trolling us because I refused to believe at 12 that people in any part of the world use a ‘-’ in a regular word they use everyday).
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