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[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Boob just because it shows how boobs look from the three main perspectives: top, straight on, and profile.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

That's very immature but very accurate

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

There’s nothing immature about boobs, my friend. Quite the opposite in fact.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

What I mean is that I laughed about this when I was twelve. I still do, but I also did when I was twelve.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Speaking of which:

When you articulate the word "poop", your mouth makes the same sequence of shapes your anus does when you poop.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Same with "explosive diarrhea"

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Always dug the word "queue" you only pronounce the first letter and the rest of them are just waiting in line all tidy.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

The word queue is made up of a queue of vowels. It's pronounced exactly the same as its first letter. It's beautiful.

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

The word bed looks like a bed.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

When in all lowercase letters the word

bed

Looks like a bed.

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah, love it. very similar vibe, with all the y's.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Also Gypsy, Myth, Glyph

Words where Y is the only vowel are satisfying.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

I discovered this word while reading the three body problem and I thought it was made up lol

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

It was an episode of the X-Files for me

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

syzygy

Bonus points for no aeiou.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

One of my kids is named Ivy and she was the first to learn how to write it because it's one stick, two sticks, three sticks. Her under 2 year old sister was at the library once and pointed to a book and said "Ivy" and yep, that was on the spine of the book. So I love that word because it made two of my kids understand written language.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

"Minimum" is quite nice, particularly in calligraphy where it's just a bunch of vertical lines

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

cipőfűző

The French really like it for some reason. It means shoelaces in Hungarian.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Cipo means "you pussy" in Polish

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

dub

It looks like headphones. Nicely symmetrical.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Preposterous. Sounds hilarious, and looks/sounds very sophisticated in a good way.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Pretty much any Arabic calligraphy.

I went to a museum in Morocco that was specifically showing Arabic calligraphy in the shape of trees or people or other common objects and was absolutely blown away.

Indelibly printed on my mind.

I saw saw Arabic calligraphy and I was like oh s*** they got the written word correct.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

https://www.boredpanda.com/illustrating-arabic-words-into-their-meaning/

I like how the Arabic word for ape is the same word that they use for monkey, but the artist cleverly drew one with a tail, and one without.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I think bookkeeping is a nice, woody word, both visually and spoken

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

A place in California called Zzyzx.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

On the way to Vegas! Yes. The desolate exit where a guy can pee when there are no exits for miles.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

That's actually hilarious. I never knew about this until now.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

*Please don't do that. The peeing in public thing. It was a terrible suggestion.

Please respect Zzyzx!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Of course I won't. I don't even pee in the streets anyways.

I will respect Zzyzx.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I love the word acquiesce. It just looks classy and elegant (even though the word doesn't mean anything like it)

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

hijinks

Three tittles in a row.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Hey man, nice tittles

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Titties the double tt looks good on cursive.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

How about besotten? Are you?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

lloviznar - to drizzle in Spanish. Also feels nice to say.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Yoviznar? How would it sound? I seem to recall LL is pronounced with ye sound.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

German always looks great.

My favourite?

Rinderkennzeichnungsfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

For any non-Germans:

cattleregistrationmeatlabellingsupervisiontasksdelegatinglaw

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

The most german thing is to read that no problem at the first try. But our language is cheating with the combining words thing.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

"Slyly" actually kind of bothers me a little due to how it looks.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

English:

  • Obelisk
  • Aptitude
  • Hamfisted
  • Obstreperous
  • Peace

Spanish:

  • Zapata
  • Dos veces

French:

  • Pamplemousse
[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I like the sound of anything in Spanish with a trilled r.

Like perro 🐶.

Mañana is nice sounding too.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I love the eñe (Ñ) in my mother tongue. And I hate when it gets written and pronounced as N. It's Zoë Saldaña, people!

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Speaking of palindromes, fun fact: "()()" is NOT a palindrome, but "())(" is.

The first one is like ABAB, the second is like ABBA.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

That's messing with my head. But in a good way.

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