Uvula? The german says Gaumenzäpfchen. It’s a Zäpfchen and it’s dangling from the Gaumen. Makes sense, no?
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.
This makes way more sense! (and also makes it obvious I currently do not speak German 😅)
So it’s a girl house.
UwU - La?
IT SOUNDS LIKE A SEX THING
So it’s a girl house
Delores?
Mulva?
Monster house reference I think.
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.
Delightful and relatable
That’s called a “clacker” where I come from.
[Edit] That might be a really local dialect term that nobody else understands.
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.
Wasn’t Uvula that comms officer on Star Trek?
My name is Uvuvwevwevwe Onyetenyevwe Ugwemuhwem Osas
Must’ve been confusing to the Romans
