BarqsHasBite to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish • 11 months agoLanguages without the letter U can't call it a U turn.message-square53fedilinkarrow-up1159arrow-down118
arrow-up1141arrow-down1message-squareLanguages without the letter U can't call it a U turn.BarqsHasBite to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish • 11 months agomessage-square53fedilink
minus-squareJeenalinkfedilink48•11 months agoIn Germany we have the letter U but we call it by the real name “Kehrtwende”
minus-square@jxk@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilink15•11 months agoJust for context, the word Kehrtwende is not used often. Instead, the verb “wenden” is used the sense of “making a U-turn”
minus-square@Archer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink10•11 months agoKnowing the Germans, probably “extra long and bent letter I”
minus-squareTheMooselinkfedilink-3•edit-211 months agoWhy is kehrtwende the real name? Doesn’t it basically just mean “turn around”?
minus-squareTheMooselinkfedilink3•11 months ago“U-turn” isn’t more complicated, it’s describing the motion literally: making a U-shaped turn
minus-square@GargleBlaster@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink22•11 months agoIsn’t it more like a n-shaped turn?
minus-square@Ddhuud@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink6•11 months agoIt could also be seen as the intersection of 2 sets. But you can’t call it an intersection, the name is taken.
minus-square@wheeldawg@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish2•11 months agoIf you want to have to specify lowercase, sure.
minus-square@breathless_RACEHORSE@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink2•11 months agoNot if you’re coming from the other direction.
minus-square@anakin78z@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink1•11 months agoDoesn’t matter, the driver is always the frame of reference
minus-square@poweruser@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglish1•11 months agoThank you for breaking my brain
minus-squareSokathHisEyesOpenlinkfedilink1•11 months agoI see you’re not very familiar with German culture.
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?
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What does that translate to?
kehrt -> return
wende -> turn
A re-turn?
re turn turn
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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
Isn’t it more like a n-shaped turn?
It could also be seen as the intersection of 2 sets. But you can’t call it an intersection, the name is taken.
∩-turn
If you want to have to specify lowercase, sure.
Not if you’re coming from the other direction.
Doesn’t matter, the driver is always the frame of reference
Thank you for breaking my brain
I see you’re not very familiar with German culture.
We Germans are all about efficiency.