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In Germany we have the letter U but we call it by the real name "Kehrtwende"
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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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Is that the real name for the letter U? damn
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In Hebrew, it's a horseshoe turn.
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In countries without horses...
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A U-turn
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We call it a 180.
As in 180 degrees turn.
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We call it something like 'half circle turn'.
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In France we call it a half turn
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Which language is that in?
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Yeah, infamousbelgian, which language is that in? /s
Edits: How the hell do I mention a user in Lemmy?
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The Romans must have called it a V-turn
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A five turn?
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How is this not the top comment??
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You should see the the folks in Beijing make a 欲-turn.
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In French it's called a pin turn.
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I imagine that would be a hairpin which takes the shape of a U. In routing there is a hairpin NAT which redirects traffic exiting back into the local network.
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In rally races in the US its also called a hairpin.
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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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Italian.... “elbow turn”
I'd be willing to bet that when they say elbow they mean the pasta.
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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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How do they not get it confused with elbow pasta?
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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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Letters aren't part of vocabulary though?
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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.
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My language doesn't has U, but we call it U turn anyway, even though we have a similar letter in our own language.
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Now that's odd.
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But the symbol still makes sense
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You don't need an alphabet to design what may as well be modern day hieroglyphics.
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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).
