Nick Shinn Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 This topic was imported from the Typophile platform This thread is dedicated to words, which, through no fault of their own, are interesting in print. Words with holes, repetitive shapes, ambiguity, &c: savvy assesses aggregate modern filling Any others? Link to comment
Ch Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 banana punctuation filigree graffiti titular boondoggle representative look pool room marmalade geostasis ...everything looks interesting now ! Link to comment
Dunwich Type Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 ignoble narcissistic atavistic coterminous arrogation Yog-Sothoth fabulous Link to comment
Oisín Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 «illigitimate» Illegitimate—not quite as bad when you remove one of the i’s. In English only diminishing Mississippi syzygy imminent swimming balaclava horror-romance Milli Vanilli (not sure if “through no fault of their own” applies here) Bananarama (ditto) Lananeeneenoonoo (intentionally ditto!) In other languages tagetage Danish (‘top floor/garret’ – interesting because you read it as tage-tage, but it’s actually tag-etage) ffwndwr Welsh (‘commotion’) ffwr-bwt Welsh (‘without warning’) dŵr dwfn Welsh (‘deep water’) actually just pretty much everything in Welsh töllöttää Finnish (‘look around a bit’) … and pretty much everything else in Finnish, too, especially on this page oiseau French (‘bird’) Angstschweiß German (‘anxiety sweat’) jäääär Estonian (‘edge of the ice’) töööö Estonian (‘night of work’) Råå (river in Sweden), hence rååål Danish/Swedish (‘eel from the Råå river’) (before 1948, this was written as raaaaaal in Danish) Most of those are ‘interesting’ in print more because they contain such very odd combinations (or repetitions) of letters than because of the shape of the individual letters, of course. Link to comment
oprion Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 Frobozz Electric, Double Fanucci, and of course, the infamous Xyzzy! _____________________________________________ Personal Art and Design Portal of Ivan Gulkovwww.ivangdesign.com Link to comment
kentlew Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 heavyweight keyword polyvinvyl goggles Link to comment
Si_Daniels Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 Obama (the answer is always Obama) Cheers, Si Link to comment
crossgrove Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 Suggested by the thread title, and probably more interesting (or rather disgusting) to consider than to see in print: Oceans of Lotions. There was a store with this name. Link to comment
Dan Weaver Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 I dare some writer here to make a story out of all these words. What a hoot it would be. Link to comment
crossgrove Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 Dan, go to bed. You are just getting squirrelly. Link to comment
Thomas Levine Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 créée (French feminine version of "created") Link to comment
eliason Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 bookkeeper rhythm unnecessary aioli teepee minimum oology Hawaiian huh Ohio suss Qabalah onomatopoeia Link to comment
fontplayer Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 At the risk of sending this looping in the wrong direction, I think phlegm looks like a funny word. Link to comment
Mark Simonson Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 commaaccent I love typing that, even though I don't have to, when I'm generating glyphs. Link to comment
pattyfab Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 Welsh for sure. They have caps in the middle of words. Any word can look funny if you look at it long enough, even your name. My first and last names have a lot of repeating characters, tried to make a logo out of that once but it didn't look good. perfidy illicit kreplach accommodate callipygian Link to comment
Dunwich Type Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 …Oceans of Lotions… Dammit Carl, I was just reading about Caligula and then you had to go and put Oceans of Lotions into my head. BLEAH! Link to comment
eliason Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 monopod alfalfa Tennessee fuddy-duddy pop Nietzschean chichi coccyx Link to comment
John Hudson Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 Welsh for sure. They have caps in the middle of words. What, like OpenType? :) But seriously, I don't recall seeing capital letters in the middle of words when I was growing up in Wales, but I may have simply missed this aspect of the orthography. Can you give me some examples, Patricia? Link to comment
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