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

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• jeena@jemmy.jeena.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  In Germany we have the letter U but we call it by the real name “Kehrtwende”

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  • 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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    • 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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• CerealKiller01@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  In Hebrew, it’s a horseshoe turn.

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  • someguy3@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    …

    In countries without horses…

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    • justhach@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      A U-turn

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• dystop@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The Romans must have called it a V-turn

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  • lobut@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    A five turn?

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  • Hazdaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    How is this not the top comment??

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• dandroid@dandroid.app ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You should see the the folks in Beijing make a 是-turn.

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• AmosBurton@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Who is we?

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    • Barns@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The Jews!

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• bouh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  In French it’s called a pin turn.

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  • MrPoopyButthole@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I imagine that would be a hair pin which takes the shape of a U.

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    • BingoBangoBongo@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      In rally races in the US its also called a hairpin.

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• TheWonderfool@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Even though the letter U is definitely existing in the vocabulary, in Italian it is called “elbow turn” (curva a gomito)!

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  • Hazdaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Italian… “elbow turn”

    I’d be willing to bet that when they say elbow they mean the pasta.

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    • TheWonderfool@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Thank you for making me discover elbow pasta! It deepens my conviction that everything in Italy is somehow related to pasta…

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  • wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Letters aren’t part of vocabulary though?

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  • Gork@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    How do they not get it confused with elbow pasta?

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    • TheWonderfool@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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.

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• learningduck@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  My language doesn’t has U, but we can it U turn anyway, even though we have a similar letter in our own language.

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  • wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Now that’s odd.

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• naux_gnaw@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  In Chinese doing an u-turn can be called 掉头, literal translation would be “lose head”.

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• mvirts@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  But the symbol still makes sense

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• over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You don’t need an alphabet to design what may as well be modern day hieroglyphics.

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• suspecm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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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