I saw this musical setting of the word gigantic in a pamphlet. A pamphlet which was only one page, the other missing, titled The mad dialogue sung by Mr. Leveridge and Mrs. Lynsey (1700), with music by Henry Purcell.
I like the way this score prompts you to think about the capacity of giganticness.
The dots and dashes indicate articulation of the lyric.
If you get the database’s own audio feature to read this song it says ‘giga-n tick’. I love hearing computers stumble over things like this, but I also thought about how it might have understood what it was saying. ‘Giant’ comes from the Greek word γίγας (gigas). Giga, now, is a prefix computers understand to show something multiplied to the factor of a short-scale billion (a thousand million), as they understand gigabyte, and so on.
As a human, gigantic is simply large beyond the categories of normal size: a hyperbolic enormousness. There is even a word derived from it, a gillion, that has been used like a zillion, for when there are imprecisely lots of them/it. but for a computer, the word has more specificity. It’s part of their measurement system.
I am biased, but I prefer the human gigantic with its sublime vagueness, filled with textural notes and tones. My gigantic is not your gigantic, but they’re both totally gigantic.