• RBWells@lemmy.world
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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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    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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    4 months ago

    cipőfűző

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

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

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

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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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    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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      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.