In a previous episode, we wondered how U-turn might translate in different languages. One listener explains that in Hebrew, drivers make a horseshoe or a hoof-turn. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Hoof-Turns”
Quite a while back we did an episode where we talked about U-turn, the phrase U-turn in other languages.
Oh, right. How do you make a U-turn in Hindi?
Yeah, exactly.
Because they don’t have the letter U.
Right. They have a different letter. So what did they say?
We got a really nice email from Shula Shinwell, and she speaks Hebrew.
And she said in Hebrew it’s called a horseshoe or a hoof turn.
Interesting, right?
And I don’t speak Hebrew, but she’s written it here and will post it to the website.
And that makes perfect sense.
And I wonder how many other languages would use the horseshoe because that’s a natural U-shape that almost everybody’s familiar with, right?
Yeah.
I’d like to know.
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