The word “Magic” parts your teeth, and opens your mouth up as if you’re about to eat something really good.
instagram.comThe word “Magic” parts your teeth, and opens your mouth up as if you’re about to eat something really good.
well-arranged words rearrange reality.
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phonetic flair — wondering if there’s a word for when musicians change the pronunciation of words to improve the melody or match rhymes (ie: this girl is on fiyah.”) Pop-stars do it. Punk-stars do it. Music is a natural medium to mutate language.
the thing about the bouba/kiki effect is that it shows us that maybe not all signs are arbitrary , which is pretty fucking cool. A lot of us have a pretty strong impulse to use back vowels (like “ou”) and voiced plosives (like “b”) or nasals (like “m”) to talk about curvy shapes. That is to say, we see a soft round thing and we point at it and go
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