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abbadon420@lemm.ee
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to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

The word "slyly" looks very aesthetically pleasing. What are other handsome words (any language)?

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The word "slyly" looks very aesthetically pleasing. What are other handsome words (any language)?

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

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      That’s very immature but very accurate

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

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          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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            Mitch Approved™

      • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
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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.

        • Executive Chimp@discuss.tchncs.de
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          Same with “explosive diarrhea”

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            Naw, that one more closely aligns with that really long German word in one of the other posts here.

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          Found the commenter who poops on a mirror.

          • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
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            Don’t knock it till you’ve tried it.

      • Mango@lemmy.world
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        No, I’d say it’s fully cooked.

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    When in all lowercase letters the word

    bed

    Looks like a bed.

  • kolonel@lemmy.world
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    syzygy

    • abbadon420@lemm.ee
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      Yeah, love it. very similar vibe, with all the y’s.

      • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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        Also Gypsy, Myth, Glyph

        Words where Y is the only vowel are satisfying.

    • pipe01@programming.dev
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      I discovered this word while reading the three body problem and I thought it was made up lol

      • Acamon@lemmy.world
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        It was an episode of the X-Files for me

      • kolonel@lemmy.world
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        For me, it was Destiny 2!

        • GoosLife@lemmy.world
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          The OA season 2 for me lmao

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

    • Xeroxchasechase@lemmy.world
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      Koowéwé

    • JackbyDev@programming.dev
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      I also find deque satisfying. Pronounced deck. It is a term in computing referring to a double ended queue.

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

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      Ah yes, the woody sort of words

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    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
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      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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        Very cool find, I would not have noticed that unless you mentioned it.

        Thanks

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      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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        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.

  • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world
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    German always looks great.

    My favourite?

    Rinderkennzeichnungsfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz

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      gesundheit

      • Lemminary@lemmy.world
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        What the fuck did you just call me

    • superkret@feddit.org
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      For any non-Germans:

      cattleregistrationmeatlabellingsupervisiontasksdelegatinglaw

    • JeffreyOrange@lemmy.world
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      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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    dub

    It looks like headphones. Nicely symmetrical.

    • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyz
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      Hungarian “dob” for drum looks like three drums and two sticks over them

  • hperrin@lemmy.world
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    hijinks

    Three tittles in a row.

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      Hey man, nice tittles

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      Cyrillic cursive takes that shape to an extreme. No tittles though.

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    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.

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      What does it mean?

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        It’s the plural of “lalea”, meaning “tulip”

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        It actually means “the tulips”, with the determinate article, like this:

        • Tulip = Lalea
        • Tulips = Lalele
        • The tulips = Lalelele
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        I suppose it’s a loose translation of covfefe.

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      All I can imagine reading this is just Patrick Star

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

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

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    deleted by creator

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    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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      That’s the cutest one yet

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