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I haven't looked at the source, but the linked page claims to use a Markov model trained on an English corpus (in this case, A Tale of Two Cities), so it emits

I haven't looked at the source, but the linked page claims to use a Markov model trained on an English corpus (in this case, A Tale of Two Cities), so it emits English-like sequences of letters and spacing, and uses that in conjunction with a Huffman tree setup to map random bitstrings to the pseudo-English phrases. You could use this on $LANGUAGE of your choice, or $CORPUS of your choice. (Also, it seems much more memorable to me than an equivalent random stream of bits are.)

Tomte 10y ago
Ah, English-like. Not English. That eluded me. Still, neither "wrowd", nor "aut", nor "settea" looks or sounds English-like to me. I wouldn't even begin to know how to pronounce it. It's nice in a sense, sure, but I suppose I could even remember (real) French words better, despite all those accents and me not speaking French.
- garethrees 10y ago
  "wrowd": a portmanteau for "wrong crowd". "Take care, you don't want to hang out with the wrowd". "aut": a logarithmic unit of measurement indicating the level of automation of a process. "I think we can get another couple of auts out of the sentiment-analysis pipeline." "settea": a genus of shrubs in the family Settaceae.
  - JoeAltmaier 10y ago
    Re: wrowd. The term 'OK' originally meant 'Our Kind'. There was another term "NOK" meaning "Not Our Kind" which got lost. Now we have wrowd, maybe it will fare better.
    - thaumasiotes 10y ago
      > The term 'OK' originally meant 'Our Kind'. There was another term "NOK" meaning "Not Our Kind" which got lost. I frown on casually lying to people over the internet. The term 'OK' originally stood for 'all correct'. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=OK http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=OK http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/503/what-does-ok-stand-for http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/503/what-does-ok-st... You're trying to allude to NOKD, which is (1) completely unrelated, and (2) not lost.
      - JoeAltmaier 10y ago
        Nah. Alluding to the usage of the word in my youth. But go ahead, defer to authority and call names! This is the internet after all.
        thaumasiotes 10y ago
        Are you claiming that a usage from your youth predates ("originally meant") the usage of 1838?
        JoeAltmaier 10y ago
        And for something as trivial as a two-letter acronym, does the first appearance in print cement it for all time? Does it constrain conventional usage forever? I'd check out some other acronyms to get an idea of their various usages and meanings over time. There's a site for that.
        mywittyname 10y ago
        In the context of "originally meant" (your words), yes, the original meaning of a word is going to be its meaning when the word first came into usage. Sure, word meaning can change over time, but their original meaning shouldn't.

Tomte 10y ago

Ah, English-like. Not English. That eluded me. Still, neither "wrowd", nor "aut", nor "settea" looks or sounds English-like to me. I wouldn't even begin to know how to pronounce it. It's nice in a sense, sure, but I suppose I could even remember (real) French words better, despite all those accents and me not speaking French.

garethrees 10y ago
"wrowd": a portmanteau for "wrong crowd". "Take care, you don't want to hang out with the wrowd". "aut": a logarithmic unit of measurement indicating the level of automation of a process. "I think we can get another couple of auts out of the sentiment-analysis pipeline." "settea": a genus of shrubs in the family Settaceae.
- JoeAltmaier 10y ago
  Re: wrowd. The term 'OK' originally meant 'Our Kind'. There was another term "NOK" meaning "Not Our Kind" which got lost. Now we have wrowd, maybe it will fare better.
  - thaumasiotes 10y ago
    > The term 'OK' originally meant 'Our Kind'. There was another term "NOK" meaning "Not Our Kind" which got lost. I frown on casually lying to people over the internet. The term 'OK' originally stood for 'all correct'. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=OK http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=OK http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/503/what-does-ok-stand-for http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/503/what-does-ok-st... You're trying to allude to NOKD, which is (1) completely unrelated, and (2) not lost.
    - JoeAltmaier 10y ago
      Nah. Alluding to the usage of the word in my youth. But go ahead, defer to authority and call names! This is the internet after all.
      - thaumasiotes 10y ago
        Are you claiming that a usage from your youth predates ("originally meant") the usage of 1838?
        JoeAltmaier 10y ago
        And for something as trivial as a two-letter acronym, does the first appearance in print cement it for all time? Does it constrain conventional usage forever? I'd check out some other acronyms to get an idea of their various usages and meanings over time. There's a site for that.
        mywittyname 10y ago
        In the context of "originally meant" (your words), yes, the original meaning of a word is going to be its meaning when the word first came into usage. Sure, word meaning can change over time, but their original meaning shouldn't.