BarqsHasBite@lemmy.ca to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoLanguages without the letter U can't call it a U turn.message-squaremessage-square42fedilinkarrow-up1141arrow-down116
arrow-up1125arrow-down1message-squareLanguages without the letter U can't call it a U turn.BarqsHasBite@lemmy.ca to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square42fedilink
minus-squareJeena@jemmy.jeena.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up44arrow-down1·1 year agoIn Germany we have the letter U but we call it by the real name “Kehrtwende”
minus-squarejxk@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up15·1 year agoJust for context, the word Kehrtwende is not used often. Instead, the verb “wenden” is used the sense of “making a U-turn”
minus-squareThis is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 year agoThe fuck did you just call me?
minus-squareHerr Woland@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down1·1 year agoIs that the real name for the letter U? damn
minus-squareBarqsHasBite@lemmy.caOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·1 year agoWhat does that translate to?
minus-squareJeena@jemmy.jeena.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up30·edit-21 year agokehrt -> return wende -> turn
minus-squareArcher@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·1 year agoKnowing the Germans, probably “extra long and bent letter I”
minus-squareTheMoose@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down8·edit-21 year agoWhy is kehrtwende the real name? Doesn’t it basically just mean “turn around”?
minus-squareJeena@jemmy.jeena.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up21arrow-down1·1 year agoYes it does, why make it more complicated?
minus-squareTheMoose@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down2·1 year ago“U-turn” isn’t more complicated, it’s describing the motion literally: making a U-shaped turn
minus-squareSokathHisEyesOpen@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·1 year agoI see you’re not very familiar with German culture.
minus-squareJeena@jemmy.jeena.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoWe Germans are all about efficiency.
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”
The fuck did you just call me?
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Is that the real name for the letter U? damn
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
I see you’re not very familiar with German culture.
We Germans are all about efficiency.