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-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@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@wheeldawg@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish2•11 months agoIf you want to have to specify lowercase, sure.
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.
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
Not if you’re coming from the other direction.
Doesn’t matter, the driver is always the frame of reference
If you want to have to specify lowercase, sure.
Thank you for breaking my brain
I see you’re not very familiar with German culture.
We Germans are all about efficiency.