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

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Jimbabwe@lemmy.world · 106 pts · 2y (11 replies)

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

abbadon420@lemm.ee · 32 pts · 2y (10 replies)

That's very immature but very accurate

Jimbabwe@lemmy.world · 54 pts · 2y (2 replies)

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

abbadon420@lemm.ee · 26 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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 pts · 2y

Mitch Approved™

Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 2y (5 replies)
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executivechimp@discuss.tchncs.de · 36 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Same with "explosive diarrhea"

Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
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AmidFuror@fedia.io · 2 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Found the commenter who poops on a mirror.

prex@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 2y

You don't have a poop mirror?

Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
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Mango@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

No, I'd say it's fully cooked.

ouRKaoS@lemmy.today · 99 pts · 2y

When in all lowercase letters the word

bed

Looks like a bed.

Kolonel_Kahlua@lemmy.world · 59 pts · 2y (6 replies)

syzygy

abbadon420@lemm.ee · 10 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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

bionicjoey@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 2y

Also Gypsy, Myth, Glyph

Words where Y is the only vowel are satisfying.

pipe01@programming.dev · 4 pts · 2y (3 replies)

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

Acamon@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

It was an episode of the X-Files for me

Kolonel_Kahlua@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)

For me, it was Destiny 2!

GoosLife@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

The OA season 2 for me lmao

SlamWich@lemmy.world · 48 pts · 2y (3 replies)

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 pts · 2y

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

tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 2y

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 pts · 2y

Koowéwé

toomanypancakes@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 2y (3 replies)

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

dysphoria@hilariouschaos.com · 25 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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

Jimbabwe@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y

Someone remembers their Encyclopedia Brown!

Lemminary@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y

Ah yes, the woody sort of words

Varyk@sh.itjust.works · 32 pts · 2y (4 replies)

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 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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.

Varyk@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y

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

Thanks

abbadon420@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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 pts · 2y

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@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 24 pts · 2y (2 replies)

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

Akasazh@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 2y

According to Matt of Stand up maths, minimum is the most satisfying word to type on a keyboard.

Which leads him to do some maths on keyboard based words: https://youtu.be/Mf2H9WZSIyw?si=BYKSOKHktbUkvpjB

fitjazz@lemmyf.uk · 2 pts · 2y

This 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.

SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 2y (6 replies)

German always looks great.

My favourite?

Rinderkennzeichnungsfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz

kylie_kraft@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 2y (1 reply)

gesundheit

Lemminary@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y

What the fuck did you just call me

superkret@feddit.org · 14 pts · 2y

For any non-Germans:

cattleregistrationmeatlabellingsupervisiontasksdelegatinglaw

JeffreyOrange@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y (2 replies)

The most german thing is to read that no problem at the first try. But our language is cheating with the combining words thing.

iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Dutch does that but there are limits. Four, five, six words smashed together?! Doe normaal! Germans... always going a bit too far.... 😉

JeffreyOrange@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

Yeah laws or very specialized tools/Maschines can get crazy, but I think our lawmakers are also trolling sometimes with the long titles.

hperrin@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 2y (1 reply)

dub

It looks like headphones. Nicely symmetrical.

HK65@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 2y

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

MudMan@fedia.io · 18 pts · 2y (5 replies)

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 pts · 2y (3 replies)

What does it mean?

thegreenguy@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 2y

It's the plural of "lalea", meaning "tulip"

stelelor@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 2y

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

  • Tulip = Lalea
  • Tulips = Lalele
  • The tulips = Lalelele
mryessir@lemmy.sdf.org · 0 pts · 2y

I suppose it's a loose translation of covfefe.

skulblaka@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2y

All I can imagine reading this is just Patrick Star

Drusas@kbin.run · 16 pts · 2y

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

hperrin@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 2y (2 replies)

hijinks

Three tittles in a row.

Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 2y

Hey man, nice tittles

HK65@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 2y

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

mozz@mbin.grits.dev · 16 pts · 2y (3 replies)

English:

  • Obelisk
  • Aptitude
  • Hamfisted
  • Obstreperous
  • Peace

Spanish:

  • Zapata
  • Dos veces

French:

  • Pamplemousse
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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

Like perro 🐶.

Mañana is nice sounding too.

richieadler@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

I love the eñe (Ñ) in my mother tongue. And I hate when it gets written and pronounced as N. It's Zoë Saldaña, people!

HurlingDurling@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

Zeta

acquiescent@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 2y

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

praise_idleness@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 2y
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Etterra@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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).

mozz@mbin.grits.dev · 4 pts · 2y

Higgeldy piggeldy

RBWells@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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.

abbadon420@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y

That's the cutest one yet

Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 2y

The word bed looks like a bed.

isyasad@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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.

bionicjoey@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 2y

I 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

Mars2k21@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 2y

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

Statlerwaldorf@midwest.social · 9 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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"

elephantium@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

I'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.

Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 2y (2 replies)

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

dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Yoviznar? How would it sound? I seem to recall LL is pronounced with ye sound.

elephantium@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

Exacto

anindefinitearticle@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 2y
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thawed_caveman@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y (2 replies)

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 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Wouldn't it need to be "dunp"?

thawed_caveman@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y

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 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Strix is cool. I like saying it.

Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Silly rabbit, Strix are for kids!

moistclump@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

Strix are for skids!

Branch_Ranch@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

I like the way 'crisp' sounds. It starts in the back of your mouth and ends at your lips.

Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y (2 replies)
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apex32@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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

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

sanguinepar@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

That's messing with my head. But in a good way.

Resol@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y (4 replies)

A place in California called Zzyzx.

irreticent@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y (3 replies)
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Resol@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y (2 replies)

That's actually hilarious. I never knew about this until now.

irreticent@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)
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Resol@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

Of course I won't. I don't even pee in the streets anyways.

I will respect Zzyzx.

oo1@lemmings.world · 5 pts · 2y

Ill

Sensitivezombie@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 2y

Millennium

WiFi

Dogma

Box/Fox

vxx@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

I've been told my username looks pleasing.

shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 2y

Crescendo

saltesc@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

hallelujah is a cool looking word. A lame word, but a cool looking one.

AWittyUsername@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

Cellar door

Sex

wabafee@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Titties the double tt looks good on cursive.

abbadon420@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 2y

How about besotten? Are you?

dubyakay@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

cipőfűző

The French really like it for some reason. It means shoelaces in Hungarian.

Maalus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

Cipo means "you pussy" in Polish

dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 2y

Gastrocnemius sounds cool

lath@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)
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pastermil@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y

TOOT

dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 2y (4 replies)

I don’t know about handsome, but I heard somewhere that “barn Cellar 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.

LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Cellar door, isn't it?

dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 2y (2 replies)

I’m an idiot. Yes it is.

LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

You're not an idiot for misremembering something!

dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 2y

Thanks. I was being overly dramatic to be honest.

intensely_human@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y

gabapentin

BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

Vituperative.

Pimiento.

Jarix@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 2y

Moist