The word "slyly" looks very aesthetically pleasing. What are other handsome words (any language)?
The word "slyly" looks very aesthetically pleasing. What are other handsome words (any language)?
Boob just because it shows how boobs look from the three main perspectives: top, straight on, and profile.
100 0 ReplyThat's very immature but very accurate
38 0 ReplyThere’s nothing immature about boobs, my friend. Quite the opposite in fact.
51 0 ReplySpeaking of which:
When you articulate the word "poop", your mouth makes the same sequence of shapes your anus does when you poop.
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syzygy
58 0 ReplyYeah, love it. very similar vibe, with all the y's.
10 0 ReplyAlso Gypsy, Myth, Glyph
Words where Y is the only vowel are satisfying.
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I discovered this word while reading the three body problem and I thought it was made up lol
4 0 ReplyIt was an episode of the X-Files for me
3 0 ReplyFor me, it was Destiny 2!
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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.
46 0 ReplyI also find deque satisfying. Pronounced deck. It is a term in computing referring to a double ended queue.
8 0 ReplyThe word queue is made up of a queue of vowels. It's pronounced exactly the same as its first letter. It's beautiful.
7 0 ReplyKoowéwé
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I think bookkeeping is a nice, woody word, both visually and spoken
37 0 ReplyAh 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.
32 0 Replyhttps://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.
9 0 ReplyVery 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.
7 0 ReplyI 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.
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"Minimum" is quite nice, particularly in calligraphy where it's just a bunch of vertical lines
24 0 ReplyThis is what I came here to say. A couple of years ago there was a trend on the fountain pen subreddit of videos of people writing minimum. It is quite fun and satisfying to write.
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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.
19 0 ReplyWhat does it mean?
12 0 ReplyIt's the plural of "lalea", meaning "tulip"
3 0 ReplyI suppose it's a loose translation of covfefe.
2 0 ReplyIt actually means "the tulips", with the determinate article, like this:
- Tulip = Lalea
- Tulips = Lalele
- The tulips = Lalelele
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All I can imagine reading this is just Patrick Star
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dub
It looks like headphones. Nicely symmetrical.
18 0 ReplyHungarian "dob" for drum looks like three drums and two sticks over them
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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)
16 0 ReplyEnglish:
- Obelisk
- Aptitude
- Hamfisted
- Obstreperous
- Peace
Spanish:
- Zapata
- Dos veces
French:
- Pamplemousse
16 0 ReplyI like the sound of anything in Spanish with a trilled r.
Like perro 🐶.
Mañana is nice sounding too.
4 0 ReplyI 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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Zeta
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hijinks
Three tittles in a row.
16 0 ReplyHey man, nice tittles
7 0 ReplyCyrillic cursive takes that shape to an extreme. No tittles though.
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"Slyly" actually kind of bothers me a little due to how it looks.
16 0 ReplyOne 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.
12 0 ReplyThat's the cutest one yet
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The word bed looks like a bed.
12 0 ReplyChinese 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.
11 0 ReplyI like how 看 (kan, to look) is composed of the radical for "hand" over the radical for "eye". It's basically representing someone doing this 🫡 to look at something
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Preposterous. Sounds hilarious, and looks/sounds very sophisticated in a good way.
10 0 Replylloviznar - to drizzle in Spanish. Also feels nice to say.
9 0 ReplyYoviznar? How would it sound? I seem to recall LL is pronounced with ye sound.
2 0 ReplyExacto
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syzygy
Bonus points for no aeiou.
9 0 ReplyGrawlix - 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"
8 0 ReplyI've loved "we'll burn that bridge when we come to it" ever since a character in Robert Asprin's Mythadventures series used it. Fun books.
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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
7 0 ReplyWouldn't it need to be "dunp"?
6 0 ReplyNo, 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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Strix is cool. I like saying it.
6 0 ReplySilly rabbit, Strix are for kids!
6 0 ReplyStrix are for skids!
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I like the way 'crisp' sounds. It starts in the back of your mouth and ends at your lips.
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Any palindrome.
5 0 ReplySpeaking of palindromes, fun fact: "()()" is NOT a palindrome, but "())(" is.
The first one is like ABAB, the second is like ABBA.
4 0 ReplyThat's messing with my head. But in a good way.
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Ill
5 0 ReplyMillennium
WiFi
Dogma
Box/Fox
4 0 ReplyA place in California called Zzyzx.
4 0 ReplyOn the way to Vegas! Yes. The desolate exit where a guy can pee when there are no exits for miles.
1 0 ReplyThat's actually hilarious. I never knew about this until now.
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I've been told my username looks pleasing.
3 0 ReplyCrescendo
3 0 ReplyTitties the double tt looks good on cursive.
2 0 ReplyHow about besotten? Are you?
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cipőfűző
The French really like it for some reason. It means shoelaces in Hungarian.
2 0 ReplyI don’t know about handsome, but I heard somewhere that “
barnCellar door” is the most pleasant sounds two words in the English language.Kinda sounds like a foreign language, perhaps that’s why it sounds pleasing.
2 0 ReplyCellar door, isn't it?
3 0 ReplyI’m an idiot. Yes it is.
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Vituperative.
Pimiento.
1 0 ReplyMoist
1 0 ReplyGastrocnemius sounds cool
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