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[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 8 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Thanks. I needed the explanation.

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 56 minutes ago (1 children)

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

[–] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 17 minutes ago

Boba maybe? As in boba tea.

[–] drspod@lemmy.ml 7 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 9 points 7 hours 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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[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 54 minutes 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.

[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours 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.

[–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 hours ago

I would be very interested in hearing this lecture

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 hours ago

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

[–] drspod@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 hours ago

You can set alt text for images on lemmy.

[–] Neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 6 hours 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.

[–] jia_tan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 10 hours ago

Take that Fahrenheit lovers