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.
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.
Very cool find, I would not have noticed that unless you mentioned it.
Thanks
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.
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.
"Minimum" is quite nice, particularly in calligraphy where it's just a bunch of vertical lines
According to Matt of Stand up maths, minimum is the most satisfying word to type on a keyboard.
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.
Hungarian "dob" for drum looks like three drums and two sticks over them
I love the word acquiesce. It just looks classy and elegant (even though the word doesn't mean anything like it)
hijinks
Three tittles in a row.
Hey man, nice tittles
Cyrillic cursive takes that shape to an extreme. No tittles though.
English:
Obelisk
Aptitude
Hamfisted
Obstreperous
Peace
Spanish:
Zapata
Dos veces
French:
Pamplemousse
I like the sound of anything in Spanish with a trilled r.
Like perro 🐶.
Mañana is nice sounding too.
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!
Zeta
"Slyly" actually kind of bothers me a little due to how it looks.
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).
Higgeldy piggeldy
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.
That's the cutest one yet
응
It means yes in Korean and it looks like ÷
or %
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.
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
Preposterous. Sounds hilarious, and looks/sounds very sophisticated in a good way.
lloviznar - to drizzle in Spanish. Also feels nice to say.
Yoviznar? How would it sound? I seem to recall LL is pronounced with ye sound.
Exacto
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"
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.
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
Strix is cool. I like saying it.
Silly rabbit, Strix are for kids!
Strix are for skids!
I like the way 'crisp' sounds. It starts in the back of your mouth and ends at your lips.
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.
Mitch Approved™
Speaking of which:
When you articulate the word "poop", your mouth makes the same sequence of shapes your anus does when you poop.
Same with "explosive diarrhea"
Naw, that one more closely aligns with that really long German word in one of the other posts here.
Found the commenter who poops on a mirror.
You don't have a poop mirror?
Don't knock it till you've tried it.
No, I'd say it's fully cooked.
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.
I discovered this word while reading the three body problem and I thought it was made up lol
It was an episode of the X-Files for me
For me, it was Destiny 2!
The OA season 2 for me lmao
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
Someone remembers their Encyclopedia Brown!
Ah yes, the woody sort of words
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.
Very cool find, I would not have noticed that unless you mentioned it.
Thanks
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.
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.
"Minimum" is quite nice, particularly in calligraphy where it's just a bunch of vertical lines
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
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.
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.
What does it mean?
It's the plural of "lalea", meaning "tulip"
It actually means "the tulips", with the determinate article, like this:
All I can imagine reading this is just Patrick Star
dub
It looks like headphones. Nicely symmetrical.
Hungarian "dob" for drum looks like three drums and two sticks over them
I love the word acquiesce. It just looks classy and elegant (even though the word doesn't mean anything like it)
hijinks
Three tittles in a row.
Hey man, nice tittles
Cyrillic cursive takes that shape to an extreme. No tittles though.
English:
Spanish:
French:
I like the sound of anything in Spanish with a trilled r.
Like perro 🐶.
Mañana is nice sounding too.
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!
Zeta
"Slyly" actually kind of bothers me a little due to how it looks.
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).
Higgeldy piggeldy
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.
That's the cutest one yet
응
It means
yesin Korean and it looks like ÷ or %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.
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
Preposterous. Sounds hilarious, and looks/sounds very sophisticated in a good way.
lloviznar - to drizzle in Spanish. Also feels nice to say.
Yoviznar? How would it sound? I seem to recall LL is pronounced with ye sound.
Exacto
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"
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.
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
Strix is cool. I like saying it.
Silly rabbit, Strix are for kids!
Strix are for skids!
I like the way 'crisp' sounds. It starts in the back of your mouth and ends at your lips.
Any palindrome.
Speaking of palindromes, fun fact: "()()" is NOT a palindrome, but "())(" is.
The first one is like ABAB, the second is like ABBA.
That's messing with my head. But in a good way.
A place in California called Zzyzx.
On the way to Vegas! Yes. The desolate exit where a guy can pee when there are no exits for miles.
That's actually hilarious. I never knew about this until now.
*Please don't do that. The peeing in public thing. It was a terrible suggestion.
Please respect Zzyzx!
Of course I won't. I don't even pee in the streets anyways.
I will respect Zzyzx.
Ill
Millennium
WiFi
Dogma
Box/Fox
I've been told my username looks pleasing.
Crescendo
cipőfűző
The French really like it for some reason. It means shoelaces in Hungarian.
Cipo means "you pussy" in Polish
hallelujah is a cool looking word. A lame word, but a cool looking one.
Titties the double tt looks good on cursive.
How about besotten? Are you?
Cellar door
Sex
Gastrocnemius sounds cool
gabapentin
I 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.
Cellar door, isn't it?
I’m an idiot. Yes it is.
You're not an idiot for misremembering something!
Thanks. I was being overly dramatic to be honest.
Vituperative.
Pimiento.
Moist