Boob just because it shows how boobs look from the three main perspectives: top, straight on, and profile.
That's very immature but very accurate
There’s nothing immature about boobs, my friend. Quite the opposite in fact.
What I mean is that I laughed about this when I was twelve. I still do, but I also did when I was twelve.
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Speaking of which:
When you articulate the word "poop", your mouth makes the same sequence of shapes your anus does when you poop.
When in all lowercase letters the word
bed
Looks like a bed.
syzygy
Yeah, love it. very similar vibe, with all the y's.
Also Gypsy, Myth, Glyph
Words where Y is the only vowel are satisfying.
Always dug the word "queue" you only pronounce the first letter and the rest of them are just waiting in line all tidy.
I also find deque satisfying. Pronounced deck. It is a term in computing referring to a double ended queue.
The word queue is made up of a queue of vowels. It's pronounced exactly the same as its first letter. It's beautiful.
Koowéwé
I think bookkeeping is a nice, woody word, both visually and spoken
and the only english word that has 3 sets of repeating letters back to back afaik
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.
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.
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.
"Minimum" is quite nice, particularly in calligraphy where it's just a bunch of vertical lines
German always looks great.
My favourite?
Rinderkennzeichnungsfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz
gesundheit
What the fuck did you just call me
For any non-Germans:
cattleregistrationmeatlabellingsupervisiontasksdelegatinglaw
The most german thing is to read that no problem at the first try. But our language is cheating with the combining words thing.
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.
English:
- Obelisk
- Aptitude
- Hamfisted
- Obstreperous
- Peace
Spanish:
- Zapata
- Dos veces
French:
- Pamplemousse
I love the word acquiesce. It just looks classy and elegant (even though the word doesn't mean anything like it)
"Slyly" actually kind of bothers me a little due to how it looks.
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.
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).
The word bed looks like a bed.
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.
Preposterous. Sounds hilarious, and looks/sounds very sophisticated in a good way.
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"
syzygy
Bonus points for no aeiou.
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
Wouldn't it need to be "dunp"?
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
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