I’ve been told my username looks pleasing.
German always looks great.
My favourite?
Rinderkennzeichnungsfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz
For any non-Germans:
cattleregistrationmeatlabellingsupervisiontasksdelegatinglaw
gesundheit
What the fuck did you just call me
The most german thing is to read that no problem at the first try. But our language is cheating with the combining words thing.
Dutch does that but there are limits. Four, five, six words smashed together?! Doe normaal! Germans… always going a bit too far… 😉
Yeah laws or very specialized tools/Maschines can get crazy, but I think our lawmakers are also trolling sometimes with the long titles.
I think bookkeeping is a nice, woody word, both visually and spoken
Ah yes, the woody sort of words
and the only english word that has 3 sets of repeating letters back to back afaik
Someone remembers their Encyclopedia Brown!
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.
I don’t know about handsome, but I heard somewhere that “barn 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!
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
hallelujah is a cool looking word. A lame word, but a cool looking one.
Always dug the word “queue” you only pronounce the first letter and the rest of them are just waiting in line all tidy.
Koowéwé
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.
Millennium
WiFi
Dogma
Box/Fox
Crescendo
syzygy
Bonus points for no aeiou.
Preposterous. Sounds hilarious, and looks/sounds very sophisticated in a good way.
Ill
dub
It looks like headphones. Nicely symmetrical.
Hungarian “dob” for drum looks like three drums and two sticks over them
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
