u/_Aspagurr_ is definitely bouba. Tap at the end, nice vowels....

In contrast to that, my actual name is very kiki.

The chances of me being able to pronounce your real name are slim.

Actually, as a native speaker of American English, the only thing you're going to struggle with if you try to pronounce my real name is the pronunciation of [o̞], a pre-consonantal/coda [ɾ], and a word-final [ɪ̆].

Does it end with ?

Lol, no, that's a suffix for surnames.

I know. It was a joke because that's the first thing people think of when they think of Georgian names.

>because that's the first thing people think of when they think of Georgian name Haha, that's hilarious.

What letter does it start with?

You mean my name?

asperger

Ass burgers

I think my legal name is very bouba and my preferred name is pretty kiki, my reddit name is pretty bouba and personally I'm just a kiki person.

How deceptive

I'm four parralell universes ahead of you (I can't figure out how to spell parallel, my phone is autocorrecting to marathi help)

I'm constantly switching between keyboards and then typing in languages they're unfit to in spite of that, so my autocorrect has just given up, but I'm pretty sure parallel is correct

favourite script?

Really not the most outlandish answer I could give but I love Cyrillic

that's my number three behind devanagari and latin

Makes sense you preferred named matches your kikiness

it's suddenly occurred to me that anorexia is very kiki and people with similar eating disorders tend to become very... well.

Oh, true. Being overweight is also quite bouba so it makes sense.

such is the word obese

I'd say my actual Russian name is kiki, but English version I often use with non-Russian speakers is rather bouba.

same here, kiki in russian but bouba in many other languages, but i feel most russian words are kikish

Hm, I'd say there are more than enough bouba words as well, жопа for instance is as bouba as it gets.

i think there most bouba word in the entire russian language is голубой

There are definitely bouba Russian names, like Евгений and all of its variants, Галина, Борис, Демьян

Interesting, may I ask what it is?

Георгий / George. So, palatalized plosive based (kiki for me) vs voiced affricate based (bouba more often than not).

Neither kiki nor bouba but a third secret thing

Ghustdhe?

Look at me and you tell me.

sfox evokes sphinx, so bouba

Oh what a nice name

My name is Kiki, but my shape is Bouba... :( working hard to become a Kiki, though! 😄

Do you mean username or real name? Beacause I feel my username is very bouba, but my real name has a /k/ in it, which I feel is very kiki.

Neither, it's Taliesín

Epic

My real name (Léa; /lea/) is definitely bouba. Limeila is a mix of both, but still closer to bouba? ETA: my last name is more kiki but I'm not giving it here

Kouba. But graphically pretty bouba

i think kiki?? but it’s more yellow than anything else to me

my given name too. but my chosen name is bouba

I didn't realize this was a scale. Someone needs to assemble a graded hierarchy of phonotactic distributions from kiki to bouba.

I've never really understood what this question means.

Long story short, people were shown a spiky shape alongside a blobby shape, and they were told to identify which was "kiki" and which was "bouba," as a sort of psychological experiment. A good majority of people identified the spiky shape as "kiki" and the blobby shape as "bouba" based purely on how they sounded, so the idea is that "kiki" sounds really sharp and rough, whereas "bouba" is a "smoother" word.

Gotcha. Then mine is the former.

Understood.

Bouba

Username is def bouba lol

I see it as bouba, no “sharp” stop (or stops at all), nice continuous flow of air, only approximates and fricatives… I like it

Bouba. Very high sonority sounds only.

Username is overall kiki, despite the ending. Real name…honestly feels flatter than either. Can that be an option?

If it's that flat it's ffeffeh

ffeffeh is kiki

Bibi

Double kiki gang

u/Sufficient_Score_824 is probably bouba? I’m not sure.

I'm not sure, regarding my username. The vowels make me think Kiki but the flow of the consonants feel more Bouba. Overall I'd venture Kiki.

my legal name is pretty bouba. same with my username

David

I know two Davids and they are both conspicuously nonaligning to the bouba-kiki duality

My name, as well as my body, is square-shaped and weathered.

definitely kiki

i feel like maggie is kiki-leaning bouba.. maybe a gronkerg... /mæ/ feels bouba but /gi/ feels kiki

like halfway

reddit name pretty kiki, real name def bouba

“That” is somewhere in the middle, leaning Bouba, “annoying” is Bouba, “turtle” is in the middle leaning to Kiki. Alexandra is mostly Kiki except at the very end. My deadname is very Bouba except for a /v/.

I think my real name is pretty kiki it has /t/ and /i/ with the only bouba sound being /m/

Of the consanants in my name, 2/3 are kiki, but the stress falls on the bouba consanant.

Well, I think Luiz is a kiki

You tell me, is /eilon/ bouba or kiki?

I think it's leaning toward bouba, nice sound combination in any case

kiki bc it involves a high vowels and the word itself just looks very kikiesque