In Hebrew, it’s a horseshoe turn.
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In countries without horses…
A U-turn
The Romans must have called it a V-turn
A five turn?
How is this not the top comment??
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Who is we?
The Jews!
Even though the letter U is definitely existing in the vocabulary, in Italian it is called “elbow turn” (curva a gomito)!
Italian… “elbow turn”
I’d be willing to bet that when they say elbow they mean the pasta.
Thank you for making me discover elbow pasta! It deepens my conviction that everything in Italy is somehow related to pasta…
Letters aren’t part of vocabulary though?
How do they not get it confused with elbow pasta?
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 French it’s called a pin turn.
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.
My language doesn’t has U, but we call it U turn anyway, even though we have a similar letter in our own language.
Now that’s odd.
But the symbol still makes sense
You don’t need an alphabet to design what may as well be modern day hieroglyphics.
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).
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