To deepen that: does a U-turn become a n turn when you have to reverse briefly because the curve was too small and thus give your path a little uptick? n
because it was originally called a You-Turn, because driving instructors said “Now you turn”, and people heard it as “Now you-turn”, and then abbreviated it as “u-turn”
In most fonts the uppercase U has no extra line, most don’t write one in upper case as well when handwriting.
Must be thought off in the US, as they have space on the road for U turns though. Most other countries are stuck with 3 point turns. (Or in my case, a lot more, my car has a turningcircle of a battleship)
Why would it be an n-turn? The n shape suggests you back up before turning. The capital U asserts that you simply turn. That’s how I’ve always done it.
I think it’s based on two things: where you are and how the letters start when written.
When writing letters n and U, both are started at their leftmost position (for most people) and their topmost position (for most people).
In the UK, or other places where you drive on the left, a u-turn would make a little n. While you aren’t starting the turn from the topmost position of the letter, you are starting on the left of the letter.
In the US and other countries where you drive on the right, you make a U-turn because viewed from above you are making a U that starts from the top and left of the letter. While from your immediate perspective while driving your making a lowercase n but starting from the right, from above it’s the classic U movement that occurs.
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U u
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This is why I say I’m gonna “flip a bitch” instead of “make a U turn/make a U-y”
To deepen that: does a U-turn become a n turn when you have to reverse briefly because the curve was too small and thus give your path a little uptick? n
To make an n-turn, you’d need to star from the other side of the street, drive forward, and then back up while steering around the bend.
When creating traffic laws and regulations, this was deemed too dangerous, so they went with “u”.
(You should have seen the options when they were using a serif font…)
In China they call them biang biang turns.
Biang a U-ey is something we have here too.
I’ll Xiè myself out
Have you ever wrote the letter? An “n” would make you go the same direction but in the opposite lane.
Think it just depends on what perspective the spectator takes.
Just call it an intersection turn and use ∩
How do you pronounce it though? 🤔
“backslash cap” :P
“intersection”
It’s Unicode U+2229. So I guess we all can formally agree to call it U+2229 turn ? Or in short U turn ? No ?
Yesssss
because it was originally called a You-Turn, because driving instructors said “Now you turn”, and people heard it as “Now you-turn”, and then abbreviated it as “u-turn”
An n turn would have to be a U-turn with other vehicles entering. Add any more entrances and you’d have a roundabout.
Maybe it’s an US thing?
I guess it’s because the U is drawn in 1 fluent motion, a u and an n have the extra line, compared to the U.
My U has the same extra line, just on the right.
*A US thing, by the way, as U begins with /j/ (the ‘y’ sound in you).
In most fonts the uppercase U has no extra line, most don’t write one in upper case as well when handwriting.
Must be thought off in the US, as they have space on the road for U turns though. Most other countries are stuck with 3 point turns. (Or in my case, a lot more, my car has a turningcircle of a battleship)
Capital ‘N’ is written differently; ‘U’ and ‘u’ are unambiguous.
But what about T-junction/t-junction?
Or on different fonts the T and I is indistinguishable
I think you mean tndtsitngutshable
yeah
Good point. I’m calling it coffee junction from now on.
There’s already a road sign resembling a capital ‘N’, but there isn’t an equivalent possible confusion for T/t.
Because ultimately, U are the one who must make the turn.
Why would it be an n-turn? The n shape suggests you back up before turning. The capital U asserts that you simply turn. That’s how I’ve always done it.
I think it’s based on two things: where you are and how the letters start when written.
When writing letters n and U, both are started at their leftmost position (for most people) and their topmost position (for most people).
In the UK, or other places where you drive on the left, a u-turn would make a little n. While you aren’t starting the turn from the topmost position of the letter, you are starting on the left of the letter.
In the US and other countries where you drive on the right, you make a U-turn because viewed from above you are making a U that starts from the top and left of the letter. While from your immediate perspective while driving your making a lowercase n but starting from the right, from above it’s the classic U movement that occurs.
Just a guess though.
For any mathematician a n-turn would be a turn segmented into n directional changes. /s
…where n∈ℕ and n>1