c/showerthoughts · by BarrelAgedBoredom@lemmy.zip · 166dShouldn'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 84 points · 12 comments · view on lemmy.world
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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
In german it is called "gaumendach", and "dach" means ceiling
BarrelAgedBoredom@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 166d
The German language proving it's superiority over english yet again
Vinylraupe@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 166d
Dach means roof.
BarrelAgedBoredom@lemmy.zip · 18 pts · 166d
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.