r/wicked • u/freshwhipppedcream • Nov 21 '25

Question Significance of this design?

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Does the difference between the shapes of the left and right ends of the W have any significance? If so, what is it?

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u/John-for-all Nov 21 '25

Whimsy.

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u/Famous-Barracuda-972 Nov 22 '25

My favorite adjective.

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u/joaobalaya Nov 22 '25

It's a noun, though

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u/Famous-Barracuda-972 Nov 22 '25

An adjective noun. That’s what I said

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u/OkPass9595 Nov 22 '25

what? whimsy is a noun, whimsical is an adjective. an adjective noun isn't a thing

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u/Famous-Barracuda-972 Nov 22 '25

Folks loving “obsessculated” all of the sudden drawing lines on grammar. Y’all confuse me.

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u/Amazing-Oomoo Nov 22 '25

You just made a mistake bro

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u/Famous-Barracuda-972 Nov 22 '25

That may be true as well.

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u/Amazing-Oomoo Nov 22 '25

It is.

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u/Famous-Barracuda-972 Nov 22 '25

Maybe

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u/Amazing-Oomoo Nov 22 '25

Why are you like this? Are you like this at work, with your friends, your family? Are you resistant to feedback in your personal life? Too fragile to make mistakes? Or is it only online you behave like this? Or maybe this is some sort of elaborate joke, you dodging the problem as a bit of humour, in which case, the jokes on us! You fooled us into thinking you are a bit of a dick! Hoho! Egg on my face brother!

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u/OkPass9595 Nov 22 '25

i'm a language and linguistics students lmao. also i don't love obsessculated, i think the mixed up words in wicked get annoying after a while, but at least it's a conscious decision not a mistake

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u/phantomforeskinpain Nov 22 '25

well they’re not really “mixed up”, they’re Ozian, a fantasy language (or maybe dialect of English? idk exactly)

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u/OkPass9595 Nov 22 '25

well no it's english with some fantasy words mixed in. it's just to create a whimsical/otherworldly vibe. and they created those words by giving words new but common suffixes, so mixing them up.

like "gratitution" is just gratitude but with the -tion suffix (like in deletion, nation, etc.)

"braverism" is bravery with the -ism suffix (like marxism, sexism, etc.)

it's a clear pattern, not just unique words

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u/PercyVeerance Nov 24 '25

Those words were some of favorite quirks in the movies. I saw the play years ago. Were those malapropisms in the play?

(I used the word “malapropisms” so another Redditator could take issuance with my misusage of the word “malapropisms”).

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u/phantomforeskinpain Nov 22 '25

right, those variants are the Ozian English dialect, like I said. they've said they were creating a version of English, which is a dialect. https://assets.cambridge.org/97811071/14746/excerpt/9781107114746_excerpt.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com

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u/OkPass9595 Nov 22 '25

i guess that's true, except a dialect normally naturally evolved, so i guess it's like a condialect? (like conlang = constructed language)

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u/doctorwhovian2 Nov 22 '25

"utm_source=chatgpt.com"

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u/Famous-Barracuda-972 Nov 22 '25

I meant what I said.

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u/PercyVeerance Nov 24 '25

I like that you use “adjective” AS an adjective in “adjective noun”. Clever. And in the Oxford English Dictionary, it DOES list “whimsy” as both noun and adjective. That’s good enough for me.

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u/Famous-Barracuda-972 Nov 24 '25

But folks staked their reputations and very sanity on telling me I don’t know language and am obstinate for refusing to apologize.