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[–] 106 points 2 years ago (11 children)

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

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  • [–] [S] 32 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    That's very immature but very accurate

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  • [–] 54 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 99 points 2 years ago

    When in all lowercase letters the word

    bed

    Looks like a bed.

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  • [–] 59 points 2 years ago (6 children)
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    [–] 48 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 39 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

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    [–] 32 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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    [–] 21 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    German always looks great.

    My favourite?

    Rinderkennzeichnungsfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    dub

    It looks like headphones. Nicely symmetrical.

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    [–] 18 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    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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    [–] 16 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    English:

    • Obelisk
    • Aptitude
    • Hamfisted
    • Obstreperous
    • Peace

    Spanish:

    • Zapata
    • Dos veces

    French:

    • Pamplemousse
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    [–] 16 points 2 years ago

    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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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    hijinks

    Three tittles in a row.

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    [–] 16 points 2 years ago

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

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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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    [–] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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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    [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    The word bed looks like a bed.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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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    [–] 10 points 2 years ago

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

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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    [–] 9 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    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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    [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Strix is cool. I like saying it.

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    [–] 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    A place in California called Zzyzx.

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