Shouldn't the roof of our mouth be called the ceiling?

That would make our sinuses/brain cavity the attic and the tops of our heads the roof

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oce@jlai.lu · 15 pts · 166d

Yes, and the upper gum should be called the mouth eave.

ceiphas@piefed.social · 6 pts · 166d (5 replies)

In german it is called "gaumendach", and "dach" means ceiling

BarrelAgedBoredom@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 166d (3 replies)

The German language proving it's superiority over english yet again

Vinylraupe@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 166d (2 replies)

Dach means roof.

BarrelAgedBoredom@lemmy.zip · 18 pts · 166d (1 reply)

English proving it's equivalence to the German language yet again

Vinylraupe@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 166d

Fun fact in our dialect we call it sky.

IncogCyberSpaceUser@piefed.social · 4 pts · 166d

The word for Ceiling in German is "Decke". Which is also the word for blanket. Lol

DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 166d

Yes.

finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 165d

Yes. I regularly visit the attic by picking my nose.

Coconut1233@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 166d

In Czech it's "patro", which can be translated as a floor/story (in a building sense)

InfiniteStruggle@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 166d

It is simply one of many injustices of our early medical practices.

lath@piefed.social · -3 pts · 166d

We had them before. They went out of style, or were never in style in the first place. You can try again, perhaps the timing was wrong.