• sir_pronoun@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    For those who didn’t know the background, like me:

    "The bouba–kiki effect or takete–maluma phenomenon is a non-arbitrary mental association between certain speech sounds and certain visual shapes. "

    So: bouba sounds round, kiki sounds spikey

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      I thought about linking an explainer, but I lazily decided that this (and the wug) would be well-enough known here.

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        6 days ago

        Oh, I didn’t even notice this was in a linguistics community - I just saw it in the feed and thought it was an xkcd community 🥲

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          6 days ago

          Even here it’s useful: there always will be people in the 10000 club, after all.

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      7 days ago

      For keke is water is float, but keke is something else is sink. (Other substances tend to be more dense when keke than baba).

      EDIT: a bit more on-topic, Baba is You is a good example of the bouba-kiki effect; you kind of expect Baba to be round and fluffier than Keke, and that’s exactly what you get.

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    Its actually not instant. Splashing cold water sounds harder than hot water, its called the bouba-kiki linear tranformation. Trust me bro.