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[-] Jimbabwe@lemmy.world 106 points 1 year ago

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

[-] abbadon420@lemm.ee 32 points 1 year ago

That's very immature but very accurate

[-] Jimbabwe@lemmy.world 54 points 1 year ago

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

[-] abbadon420@lemm.ee 26 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

Mitch Approved™

[-] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year 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 36 points 1 year ago

Same with "explosive diarrhea"

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[-] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 99 points 1 year ago

When in all lowercase letters the word

bed

Looks like a bed.

[-] Kolonel_Kahlua@lemmy.world 59 points 1 year ago
[-] abbadon420@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

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

[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

Also Gypsy, Myth, Glyph

Words where Y is the only vowel are satisfying.

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[-] SlamWich@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year 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 9 points 1 year ago

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

[-] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 year 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 1 year ago
[-] toomanypancakes@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago

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

[-] dysphoria@hilariouschaos.com 25 points 1 year ago

and the only english word that has 3 sets of repeating letters back to back afaik

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[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 32 points 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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.

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[-] Bougie_Birdie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

German always looks great.

My favourite?

Rinderkennzeichnungsfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz

[-] kylie_kraft@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago
[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

What the fuck did you just call me

[-] superkret@feddit.org 14 points 1 year ago

For any non-Germans:

cattleregistrationmeatlabellingsupervisiontasksdelegatinglaw

[-] JeffreyOrange@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year 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.

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[-] hperrin@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

dub

It looks like headphones. Nicely symmetrical.

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[-] MudMan@fedia.io 18 points 1 year 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 1 year ago
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[-] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

English:

  • Obelisk
  • Aptitude
  • Hamfisted
  • Obstreperous
  • Peace

Spanish:

  • Zapata
  • Dos veces

French:

  • Pamplemousse
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[-] acquiescent@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

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

[-] hperrin@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

hijinks

Three tittles in a row.

[-] Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

Hey man, nice tittles

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[-] Drusas@kbin.run 16 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

I don't think there's any words that "look handsome" though what I was a kid, the first time I read the word "gobbledygook" I could not stop laughing for at least 5 minutes. Then I had to go look it up in a dictionary (because that was the style at the time).

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[-] RBWells@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year 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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[-] Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

The word bed looks like a bed.

[-] isyasad@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

[-] Statlerwaldorf@midwest.social 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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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[-] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 year ago

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

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syzygy

Bonus points for no aeiou.

[-] thawed_caveman@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

Wouldn't it need to be "dunp"?

[-] thawed_caveman@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

Strix is cool. I like saying it.

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Silly rabbit, Strix are for kids!

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[-] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago
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[-] Resol@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

A place in California called Zzyzx.

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