stackyFACTSShow someone a spiky shape and a round shape, and they will almost always call the spiky one 'Kiki' and the round one 'Bouba'. The brain innately connects phonetic harshness with visual sharpness. Arbitrary words are apparently deeply mapped to physical geometry across all cultures.
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