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.
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.
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.
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).
52 Comments
jeena@jemmy.jeena.net · 48 pts · 2y
In Germany we have the letter U but we call it by the real name "Kehrtwende"
jxk@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 2y
Just for context, the word Kehrtwende is not used often. Instead, the verb "wenden" is used the sense of "making a U-turn"
herrwoland@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y
Is that the real name for the letter U? damn
TheBat@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
ndsvw@feddit.de · 2 pts · 2y
someguy3@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 2y
What does that translate to?
jeena@jemmy.jeena.net · 34 pts · 2y
kehrt -> return
wende -> turn
FloppyDix@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 2y
A re-turn?
intensely_human@lemm.ee · 11 pts · 2y
re turn turn
Kirbo@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
Archer@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y
Knowing the Germans, probably "extra long and bent letter I"
OhTheMoose@lemm.ee · -3 pts · 2y
Why is kehrtwende the real name? Doesn't it basically just mean "turn around"?
jeena@jemmy.jeena.net · 23 pts · 2y
Yes it does, why make it more complicated?
OhTheMoose@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 2y
"U-turn" isn't more complicated, it's describing the motion literally: making a U-shaped turn
GargleBlaster@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 2y
Isn't it more like a n-shaped turn?
Ddhuud@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
It could also be seen as the intersection of 2 sets. But you can't call it an intersection, the name is taken.
dandroid@dandroid.app · 7 pts · 2y
∩-turn
breathless_RACEHORSE@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Not if you're coming from the other direction.
anakin78z@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Doesn't matter, the driver is always the frame of reference
wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y
If you want to have to specify lowercase, sure.
poweruser@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 2y
Thank you for breaking my brain
Anticorp@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y
I see you're not very familiar with German culture.
jeena@jemmy.jeena.net · 1 pts · 2y
We Germans are all about efficiency.
CerealKiller01@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 2y
In Hebrew, it's a horseshoe turn.
someguy3@lemmy.ca · 19 pts · 2y
...
In countries without horses...
justhach@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y
A U-turn
dystop@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 2y
The Romans must have called it a V-turn
lobut@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 2y
A five turn?
Hazdaz@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
How is this not the top comment??
infamousbelgian@waste-of.space · 28 pts · 2y
We call it a 180.
As in 180 degrees turn.
monobot@lemmy.ml · 13 pts · 2y
We call it something like 'half circle turn'.
Mubelotix@jlai.lu · 5 pts · 2y
In France we call it a half turn
gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Which language is that in?
infamousbelgian@waste-of.space · 5 pts · 2y
Dutch. But the variant we speak in Flanders (Vlaams).
Anticorp@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 2y
Stupid, sexy, Flanders.
Bolleeer@programming.dev · 3 pts · 2y
Yeah, infamousbelgian, which language is that in? /s
Edits: How the hell do I mention a user in Lemmy?
infamousbelgian@waste-of.space · 3 pts · 2y
We actually have 3 official languages in our (small) country. Dutch (Flemish), French (Walloon) and German :)
dandroid@dandroid.app · 19 pts · 2y
You should see the the folks in Beijing make a 欲-turn.
AmosBurton@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2y
gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
Who is we?
Barns@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
The Jews!
bouh@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y
In French it's called a pin turn.
MrPoopyButthole@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
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.
BingoBangoBongo@midwest.social · 2 pts · 2y
In rally races in the US its also called a hairpin.
TheWonderfool@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y
Even though the letter U is definitely existing in the vocabulary, in Italian it is called "elbow turn" (curva a gomito)!
Hazdaz@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
I'd be willing to bet that when they say elbow they mean the pasta.
TheWonderfool@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Thank you for making me discover elbow pasta! It deepens my conviction that everything in Italy is somehow related to pasta...
Gork@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y
How do they not get it confused with elbow pasta?
TheWonderfool@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
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.
wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2y
Letters aren't part of vocabulary though?
learningduck@programming.dev · 6 pts · 2y
My language doesn't has U, but we call it U turn anyway, even though we have a similar letter in our own language.
wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y
Now that's odd.
naux_gnaw@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
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.
mvirts@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
But the symbol still makes sense
over_clox@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
You don't need an alphabet to design what may as well be modern day hieroglyphics.
suspecm@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
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).
halvar@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y