Comment on Languages without the letter U can't call it a U turn.

jeena@jemmy.jeena.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• jxk@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Just for context, the word Kehrtwende is not used often. Instead, the verb “wenden” is used the sense of “making a U-turn”

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• herrwoland@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Is that the real name for the letter U? damn

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• someguy3@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What does that translate to?

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  • jeena@jemmy.jeena.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    kehrt -> return wende -> turn

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    • FloppyDix@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      A re-turn?

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      • intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        re turn turn

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  • Archer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Knowing the Germans, probably “extra long and bent letter I”

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• TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The fuck did you just call me?

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• OhTheMoose@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Why is kertwende the real name? Doesn’t it basically just mean “turn around”?

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  • jeena@jemmy.jeena.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes it does, why make it more complicated?

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    • OhTheMoose@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      “U-turn” isn’t more complicated, it’s describing the motion literally: making a U-shaped turn

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      • GargleBlaster@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Isn’t it more like a n-shaped turn?

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