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[-] Jimbabwe@lemmy.world 100 points 4 months ago

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

[-] abbadon420@lemm.ee 38 points 4 months ago

That's very immature but very accurate

[-] Jimbabwe@lemmy.world 51 points 4 months ago

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

[-] abbadon420@lemm.ee 26 points 4 months 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.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 5 points 4 months ago

Mitch Approved™

[-] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 23 points 4 months ago

Speaking of which:

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

[-] executivechimp@discuss.tchncs.de 33 points 4 months ago

Same with "explosive diarrhea"

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[-] Kolonel_Kahlua@lemmy.world 58 points 4 months ago
[-] abbadon420@lemm.ee 10 points 4 months ago

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

[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 months ago

Also Gypsy, Myth, Glyph

Words where Y is the only vowel are satisfying.

[-] pipe01@programming.dev 4 points 4 months ago

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

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[-] SlamWich@lemmy.world 46 points 4 months ago

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

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 8 points 4 months ago

I also find deque satisfying. Pronounced deck. It is a term in computing referring to a double ended queue.

[-] tiefling 7 points 4 months 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.

[-] Xeroxchasechase@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago
[-] toomanypancakes@lemmy.world 37 points 4 months ago

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

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[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 32 points 4 months 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.

[-] dddontshoot@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months 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.

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[-] abbadon420@lemm.ee 7 points 4 months ago

I tried learning Arabic once, because it's such a beatiful language. I wasn't very good at it, but i understand a bit of how it can be such an artistic language.

[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago

I really liked listening to the call to prayers they play through the cities, although the first time they played aloud, I was very worried at what sounded like Divine Revelation ridinog through the alleyways while I was walking around, like some Gabriel trumpet s*** breaking the city apart until I realized it was just the call to prayer.

It was this loud rumbling "aaaaaaaaaaaaAaAaAaAAaAAAAAAAA" to begin saying "Allah" and I was very confused and worried for the drawn out 20 seconds or so it took to complete the first syllable.

[-] Bougie_Birdie 24 points 4 months ago

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

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[-] MudMan@fedia.io 19 points 4 months ago

In Romanian, the word "lalelele" is perfectly correct.

Ever since I saw it written down I've been trying to decide if I love it or hate it.

[-] vrek@programming.dev 12 points 4 months ago
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[-] hperrin@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago

dub

It looks like headphones. Nicely symmetrical.

[-] HK65@sopuli.xyz 4 points 4 months ago

Hungarian "dob" for drum looks like three drums and two sticks over them

[-] acquiescent@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago

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

[-] Drusas@kbin.run 16 points 4 months ago

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

[-] hperrin@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago

hijinks

Three tittles in a row.

[-] Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee 7 points 4 months ago

Hey man, nice tittles

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[-] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 16 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

English:

  • Obelisk
  • Aptitude
  • Hamfisted
  • Obstreperous
  • Peace

Spanish:

  • Zapata
  • Dos veces

French:

  • Pamplemousse
[-] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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

Like perro 🐶.

Mañana is nice sounding too.

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[-] Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

The word bed looks like a bed.

[-] RBWells@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months 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.

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[-] isyasad@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago

Chinese and Japanese would have so many. My favorite is probably 緑 which means green. I also like the simplified Chinese horse: 马. Special shoutout to 凸 meaning convex, 凹 meaning concave, and 凸凹 meaning bumpy (not sure if this is true in Chinese). There's thousands to choose from so of course there are a lot of other handsome one-character words, but those are the first few I thought of.

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[-] Mars2k21@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 months ago

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

syzygy

Bonus points for no aeiou.

[-] Catoblepas 9 points 4 months ago

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

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[-] Statlerwaldorf@midwest.social 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Grawlix - the use of punctuation to convey swearing in comics or cartoons. @#!&

Malapropism - incorrectly using a word that sounds similar to the intended word. Like Mike Tyson famously saying that he'd "fade into Bolivian"

Malaphor - combining one or more metaphors incorrectly like "we'll burn that bridge then we come to it"

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[-] thawed_caveman@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

The word

dumb

is almost perfectly symmetrical, at least d and b are, and i really like it. Depends on the typeface of course.

You can have a perfectly symmetrical set of letters by writing "dunb" but that's not a word

[-] lemonmelon@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Wouldn't it need to be "dunp"?

[-] thawed_caveman@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

No, p is like a d that was rotated 180°, whereas b is like a d that was flipped horizontally.

Though i do now realize that the same is true for u and n, my mistake, still looks neat

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Strix is cool. I like saying it.

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Silly rabbit, Strix are for kids!

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[-] apex32@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

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

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

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[-] oo1@lemmings.world 5 points 4 months ago
[-] Sensitivezombie@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Millennium

WiFi

Dogma

Box/Fox

[-] Resol@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

A place in California called Zzyzx.

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