• 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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    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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    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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      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.

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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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        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