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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Thanks. I needed the explanation.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Doesn't "bouba" mean something else? That kind of looks like that?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Boba maybe? As in boba tea.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Oh my God that was amazing

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Alt text: When water's temperature falls below 0°C, it undergoes Bouba to Kiki.

Pic: The picture has a diagram showing water above freezing being flowy and liquid, and below freezing being rigid and icy. Many people find the sounds Bouba and Kiki to match visually to the look of rounded and pointy shapes respectively.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago (4 children)

They linked the comic beneath the image, you gotta click it. I was gonna copy/paste for ya, but my phone won't let me. So I screenshot.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

I was able to do OcR on that, and here it is. Collaborative effort!

Even when you try to make nice, smooth ice cubes in a freezer, sometimes one of them will shoot out a random ice spike, which physicists ascribe to kiki conservation.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I have developed a whole theory of male sexuality based on booba/kiki conservation, but this comment section is too small for it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

I would be very interested in hearing this lecture

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Welp, that responds to my issue of those cubes being too rounded to be kiki

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

You can set alt text for images on lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago

Take that Fahrenheit lovers