Comic Strips @lemmy.world kneekap @lemmy.world 4d ago

The speed bag looking thing

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Uvula? The german says Gaumenzäpfchen. It's a Zäpfchen and it's dangling from the Gaumen. Makes sense, no?
- Reminds me of the Flammenwerfer!
  
  It’s literally a 1:1 translation of Flamethrower.
  
  There are much better examples for long German words beeing short in English like
  
  Toy = Spielzeug (Play Stuff)
  
  Mall = Einkaufszentrum (Shopping Centre)
  
  Sale = Schlussverkauf (End sale)
  
  Matchbox = Streichholzschachtel (Swipe wood box)
  
  Lighter = Feuerzeug (Fire Creator)
- Didn't know I'd be thinking about a "palate suppository" when I woke up today, but here it is.
  
  The word Zäpfchen itself is the diminutive of Zapfen, a stud, peg or pin. E.g. the fruits of needle trees are also called Zapfen, Tannen-, Fichten- or Kiefernzapfen. So Gaumenzäpfchen is a small stud dangling down from the palate.
- So it's a girl house.
I was talking to my hairdresser once and accidentally called my tonsils testicles so maybe uvula can be vulva now to make it all even
Why the random K's?
- It's the tongue speaking.
  
  That was my first guess, but when I sounded out the words as spelled it didn't sound very... tongue-y. Maybe I'm not hearing it right.
  
  Edit: you don't even use your tongue to make the K sound 🤔
UwU - La?
So it's a girl house
- I also am pavlov'd to remember this line every time, great minds think alike. Or the superior German proverb, two fools one thought
  
  Great minds think alike is only half the proverb. The other one is: , but fools rarely differ. Somewhat similar to the german one.
- Delores?
  
  Mulva?
  
  Monster house reference I think.
IT SOUNDS LIKE A SEX THING
- I want you to touch that lil' dangly thing that swing in the back of my throat
- It isn't?!?
  
  Anything can be a sex thing (once) if you're brave enough
I think of this scene from Monster House every single time I hear the word uvula https://youtu.be/oM0SArkFxco
- So it's a girl house
It might be a family thing, or even dialectal from where I grew up, but its common name for me is "(the) clack".

Wiktionary suggests that the name "clack" is used for the tongue, but then there's this Black country (UK West Midlands, where I'm not from) dialect page: https://www.sedgleymanor.com/dictionaries/dialect.html that actually lists "clack" as being a name for the uvula, so it might well dialectal word used the north of England and the midlands.
That's called a "clacker" where I come from.

[Edit] That might be a really local dialect term that nobody else understands.
Wasn't Uvula that comms officer on Star Trek?
Delightful and relatable
Must've been confusing to the Romans

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