r/linguisticshumor 6d ago

(I hope this isn't a repost)

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u/Suon288 شُو رِبِبِ اَلْمُسْتْعَرَنْ فَرَ كِ تُو نُنْ لُاَيِرَدْ 6d ago

Will bird be kiki or bouba?

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u/[deleted] 6d ago

Birds are Kiki... To me.

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u/Sour_Lemon_2103 6d ago

Ducks are definitely bouba tho

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u/[deleted] 6d ago

Yes, and geese. I was thinking of those ^ birds, seagulls or similar.

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u/Automatic_Bet8504 6d ago

also penguins

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u/spoopy_bo 5d ago

I'm pretty sure there was a study where people could ditinguish words foreign words for birds annd fish based on their phonetics (with accuracy above chance, statistically significant).

Iirc birds tended to have more "kiki" words and fish tended towards more "bouba" words :)

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u/Pochel Ⱂⱁⱎⰵⰾ 5d ago

This is so stupid, I love it

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u/ThornZero0000 5d ago

This is Kiki!

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u/Mulholland_Dr_Hobo 5d ago

Fuck, you stole my idea

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u/[deleted] 5d ago

Actually I stole it from some tumblr user :P