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Portmanteau Generator

220 points by gbear605 8y ago

flatfilefan 8y ago
In this friendustry informat is the mewsage.
rovyko 8y ago
labyrinth + monster = navigator (navigate/gator)
Noumenon72 8y ago
bad seed: horrendousperm (horrendous + endosperm). Possibly produced by a fertilizer miser.
taneq 8y ago
Ah, it's an adjecdevice! Or a pejoradevice, depending on how rude it's being.
jpwagner 8y ago
This is terrible fun, or dare i say "shitty-witty"
usdivad 8y ago
"existential" + "angst" yields some great results, including despairitual (despair/spiritual), tormentological (torment/ontological), and sartrevail (sartre/travail)
xref 8y ago
Seeding with “tiger mom” didn’t disappoint: - galigator (gal/alligator) - croctuplets (croc/octuplets) - Pumather-in-law (puma/mother-in-law)
headmelted 8y ago
Seeded it with fish and plane because they were the first two words I could think of. "tarmackerel" I am complete.
throway88989898 8y ago
Anyway... here is a 100,000+word portmanteau for your entertainment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVn2PZGZxaI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVn2PZGZxaI (no phonemes) Againyway... that's odd https://www.punchlinedesign.net/pun_generator/%21+%21 https://www.punchlinedesign.net/pun_generator/%21+%21
- yesenadam 8y ago
  dunnope https://www.punchlinedesign.net/pun_generator/%3F+ https://www.punchlinedesign.net/pun_generator/%3F+! whenyway suckordingly anyhowever whenyhow https://www.punchlinedesign.net/pun_generator/!+ https://www.punchlinedesign.net/pun_generator/!+.
samcodes 8y ago
Well... Time to change careers. A "sex" and "travel" blog called "exploregasm" needs to exist.
- phkahler 8y ago
  Those traveling instagram models will still not admit what they are doing. But typing in "prostitute" and "travel" for some really interesting stuff: passport escort nymphomaniac backpack whore explore euphemism tourism The Portmanteaus are even better.
- Archit3ch 8y ago
  flying + dinosaur -> travelociraptor
tzakrajs 8y ago
Your generator keeps suggesting me to use the n-word (hard r) and I am not putting anything racist in. Can you please add some filters?
- wccrawford 8y ago
  I would even go so far as to say he should just take that word out of his dictionary. There's never a time that it should serve it as a suggestion, IMO.
  - tzakrajs 8y ago
    Totally agree and yet I get downvoted, presumably by those who enjoyed the n word in the program.
- deleted 8y ago
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flatfilefan 8y ago
Tongue in cheek: misleader (mislead/leader) and the rhyme “disrespect reelect”
sjwright 8y ago
This is cool. I entered Bird + Word and got: - beak speak - lexicon swan - ornithology terminology And to cap it off, the portmentau of spellican!
alexanderdmitri 8y ago
My favorite: timid + programmer => softwary (software/wary)
TadaScientist 8y ago
This is internet gold spaghetti + mom yields: grandpasta mommytball spagheteenager spagheteen fettuccineice I think I found my next online nickname: "grandpasta flash"
TadaScientist 8y ago
Oh, I've got another one: Britain and exit yields: Briturn - I think the signs have spoken
mysterydip 8y ago
warfareogance (warfare arrogance) needs to become a thing
- samstave 8y ago
  We used to just call them NeoCons.
onion2k 8y ago
Rockstar + Developer yields the rather delightful "insomniactor".
emiliobumachar 8y ago
Very cool and impressive project. "portmanteau" + "website" yields "internetymology".
pkz 8y ago
This is where rappers hang out.
misnome 8y ago
I had my doubts going in, but: "Pointless" "Meeting" -> Morondezvous I think it just found the perfect word for my daily life.
- jahn716 8y ago
  You've just added value to my life! I will use this word with great pleasure.
- ineptech 8y ago
  Also: "programateurish" - might come in handy for code reviews?
Grue3 8y ago
continuous integration = continunity (continue/unity) artificial intelligence = smartificial (smart/artificial) garbage collector = debriscycler (debris/recycler)
slig 8y ago
Suggestion: integrate this on a domain name suggestion service.
- EForEndeavour 8y ago
  As far as I can tell, it already serves that purpose beautifully in its current state :P
  - slig 8y ago
    For sure. Showing what .com is available would be nice, though.
binarymax 8y ago
The results are just incredible. The depth of the project is very deep. Case in point, chess+clock yields hourglasker (hourglass & Lasker). Lasker was a German chess champion, well known in chess circles but the average person would have no idea who he is. I wonder if this is using wikipedia or dbpedia to walk a graph and find words to stick together. That's the only way I could think of doing this.
- gwern 8y ago
  Nope, the paper says it's just using the FastText word embedding: https://nips2018creativity.github.io/doc/entendrepreneur.pdf https://nips2018creativity.github.io/doc/entendrepreneur.pdf which is just a particularly well-done word2vec: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.09405.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.09405.pdf 'Lasker' and 'chess' no doubt co-occur quite strongly in their Internet corpus.
  - ggggtez 8y ago
    On the other hand, it comes up with "Beagle" and "Labrador" as synonyms of "cat". Color me unimpressed. This seems like something that has been done before, and the fact the paper has no references indicates to me that the author maybe didn't do background research. While [0] is different, I could have sworn I've seen a paper which discussed creating puns in this fashion. [0] http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W05-1614 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W05-1614
    - gwern 8y ago
      Maybe you saw https://llamasandmystegosaurus.blogspot.com/2017/05/alpha.html https://llamasandmystegosaurus.blogspot.com/2017/05/alpha.ht... a year or two ago which does something similar in generating rhyming definitions, also using a word2vec approach.
    - Jack000 8y ago
      fasttext and word2vec only encode contextual similarity, they're not meant to generate synonyms.
hliyan 8y ago
Source code: https://github.com/jonadsimon/entendrepreneur-web/blob/master/app/portmanteau.py https://github.com/jonadsimon/entendrepreneur-web/blob/maste... Paper (just 2 pages): https://nips2018creativity.github.io/doc/entendrepreneur.pdf https://nips2018creativity.github.io/doc/entendrepreneur.pdf
gwern 8y ago
Also discussed on SSC: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/24/ot122-openne-thread/#comment-724333 https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/24/ot122-openne-thread/#c...
- gbear605 8y ago
  Where do you think I found it? ;)
ar-nelson 8y ago
An excellent way to invent new Pokémon: element + animal "electric"+"rat": - dynamole - hydroach - electrodent
- ConceptJunkie 8y ago
  Electrodent is perfect for Pikachu, but, unsurprisingly, much less appealing.
zemo 8y ago
poop + politician = craparatchik. the math checks out.
kirubakaran 8y ago
Idiot + Friend = Dumbigo (dumb/amigo) I'll be using that!
sogen 8y ago
nightmairline
deegles 8y ago
I put in "software engineer" and got 'technologyologist'... which feels right!
antihero 8y ago
Software + Engineer -> electrontrepreneur. So true, nowadays.
- skaomatic 8y ago
  I found this one too, and registered the .com - lol!
samstave 8y ago
President Trump: contradictator (contradict/dictator)
- samstave 8y ago
  haha I love that I am being downvoted for the output of this service/bot
sshanky 8y ago
I was hoping to see motel from motor and hotel, brunch from breakfast and lunch.
tasty_freeze 8y ago
crypto + currency = greenbackdoor
thruflo22 8y ago
https://www.punchlinedesign.net/pun_generator/lazy+fox https://www.punchlinedesign.net/pun_generator/lazy+fox Stop being such a grumbeaver (grumpy/beaver)! Genious!
ggggtez 8y ago
A think the right way to test such a tool is to start with a list of known portmanteaus or rhymes, and check if the tool successfully finds them, and with what precision and recall. Just having people plug in words and find things that they find interesting is going to result in people feeling it's better than it actually is. I tried a few examples, and while some of the outputs seemed "OK", they missed what seemed like obvious puns that I know exist in the lexicon because I was able to massage the inputs until it found them.
- ConceptJunkie 8y ago
  I think the first step would be to use a tool for word selection that does a better job finding actual synonyms instead of "words that are vaguely the same". The phoneme matching aspect of it obviously works very well. I think if you had more control over the words it would use, you'd get better results. See my comment about "politician" above. I've repeated tried combinations with the word politician in them, and none of the synonyms I would expect to show up ever showed up.
thinkstorm 8y ago
https://www.punchlinedesign.net/pun_generator/Venture+capital https://www.punchlinedesign.net/pun_generator/Venture+capita... rhymes with... misallocation exploration.
thinkstorm 8y ago
"Hacker" "News" - gossipculture - newsworthief - subculjournal
yesenadam 8y ago
I'd love to see a version for non-US English. Seeing "AA" for sounds like the 'o' in 'pot' is..very strange. And it gives rhymes like shock bach SH.AA.K B.AA.K which I guess only rhyme in the USA.
rayalez 8y ago
Evil Corporation > sindustry (sin+industry) Small Business > slenderprise (slender/enterprise), businessmany (businessman + many), revenuemerous (revenue/numerous) Boring Movie > screenplazy (screenplay/lazy) Stupid Idea > retardicle (retard/article) These are so good!
ConceptJunkie 8y ago
This is a really cool implementation, and I'm impressed with the examples given. So, I did what every obnoxious person would do and put in "stupid" and "politician", but I didn't get any real good results, mostly because it didn't use any of the synonyms for "politician" that I would expect... like president, senator, congressman, governor, prime minister (would it even deal with compound words?) or even the most obvious: politician! Instead it used these words: moralist, orator, critic, rabbi, teacher, entrepreneur, philanthropist, leader (OK, that one is good), economist, attorney, prelate, administrator, constituent, assemblyman, and assemblywoman. Everyone of these was either not really a kind of politician, or a pretty obscure word. Now some of these portmanteaus were pretty clever through the matching of phoneme clusters, and not just exact ones, but similar ones, and that's what's really cool about this tool, but ultimately I couldn't get what I was looking for! At the very least it should use the words you entered! Nevertheless, I definitely want to play with this more. So, to the authors I'd say they've built something really cool and I'm looking forward to seeing how it can be improved.

220 points by gbear605 8y ago

flatfilefan 8y ago

In this friendustry informat is the mewsage.

rovyko 8y ago

labyrinth + monster = navigator (navigate/gator)

Noumenon72 8y ago

bad seed: horrendousperm (horrendous + endosperm). Possibly produced by a fertilizer miser.

taneq 8y ago

Ah, it's an adjecdevice! Or a pejoradevice, depending on how rude it's being.

jpwagner 8y ago

This is terrible fun, or dare i say "shitty-witty"

usdivad 8y ago

"existential" + "angst" yields some great results, including despairitual (despair/spiritual), tormentological (torment/ontological), and sartrevail (sartre/travail)

xref 8y ago

Seeding with “tiger mom” didn’t disappoint: - galigator (gal/alligator) - croctuplets (croc/octuplets) - Pumather-in-law (puma/mother-in-law)

headmelted 8y ago

Seeded it with fish and plane because they were the first two words I could think of. "tarmackerel" I am complete.

throway88989898 8y ago

Anyway... here is a 100,000+word portmanteau for your entertainment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVn2PZGZxaI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVn2PZGZxaI (no phonemes) Againyway... that's odd https://www.punchlinedesign.net/pun_generator/%21+%21 https://www.punchlinedesign.net/pun_generator/%21+%21

yesenadam 8y ago
dunnope https://www.punchlinedesign.net/pun_generator/%3F+ https://www.punchlinedesign.net/pun_generator/%3F+! whenyway suckordingly anyhowever whenyhow https://www.punchlinedesign.net/pun_generator/!+ https://www.punchlinedesign.net/pun_generator/!+.

samcodes 8y ago

Well... Time to change careers. A "sex" and "travel" blog called "exploregasm" needs to exist.

phkahler 8y ago
Those traveling instagram models will still not admit what they are doing. But typing in "prostitute" and "travel" for some really interesting stuff: passport escort nymphomaniac backpack whore explore euphemism tourism The Portmanteaus are even better.
Archit3ch 8y ago
flying + dinosaur -> travelociraptor

tzakrajs 8y ago

Your generator keeps suggesting me to use the n-word (hard r) and I am not putting anything racist in. Can you please add some filters?

wccrawford 8y ago
I would even go so far as to say he should just take that word out of his dictionary. There's never a time that it should serve it as a suggestion, IMO.
- tzakrajs 8y ago
  Totally agree and yet I get downvoted, presumably by those who enjoyed the n word in the program.
deleted 8y ago
[deleted]

flatfilefan 8y ago

Tongue in cheek: misleader (mislead/leader) and the rhyme “disrespect reelect”

sjwright 8y ago

This is cool. I entered Bird + Word and got: - beak speak - lexicon swan - ornithology terminology And to cap it off, the portmentau of spellican!

alexanderdmitri 8y ago

My favorite: timid + programmer => softwary (software/wary)

TadaScientist 8y ago

This is internet gold spaghetti + mom yields: grandpasta mommytball spagheteenager spagheteen fettuccineice I think I found my next online nickname: "grandpasta flash"

TadaScientist 8y ago

Oh, I've got another one: Britain and exit yields: Briturn - I think the signs have spoken

mysterydip 8y ago

warfareogance (warfare arrogance) needs to become a thing

samstave 8y ago
We used to just call them NeoCons.

onion2k 8y ago

Rockstar + Developer yields the rather delightful "insomniactor".

emiliobumachar 8y ago

Very cool and impressive project. "portmanteau" + "website" yields "internetymology".

pkz 8y ago

This is where rappers hang out.

misnome 8y ago

I had my doubts going in, but: "Pointless" "Meeting" -> Morondezvous I think it just found the perfect word for my daily life.

jahn716 8y ago
You've just added value to my life! I will use this word with great pleasure.
ineptech 8y ago
Also: "programateurish" - might come in handy for code reviews?

Grue3 8y ago

continuous integration = continunity (continue/unity) artificial intelligence = smartificial (smart/artificial) garbage collector = debriscycler (debris/recycler)

slig 8y ago

Suggestion: integrate this on a domain name suggestion service.

EForEndeavour 8y ago
As far as I can tell, it already serves that purpose beautifully in its current state :P
- slig 8y ago
  For sure. Showing what .com is available would be nice, though.

binarymax 8y ago

The results are just incredible. The depth of the project is very deep. Case in point, chess+clock yields hourglasker (hourglass & Lasker). Lasker was a German chess champion, well known in chess circles but the average person would have no idea who he is. I wonder if this is using wikipedia or dbpedia to walk a graph and find words to stick together. That's the only way I could think of doing this.

gwern 8y ago
Nope, the paper says it's just using the FastText word embedding: https://nips2018creativity.github.io/doc/entendrepreneur.pdf https://nips2018creativity.github.io/doc/entendrepreneur.pdf which is just a particularly well-done word2vec: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.09405.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.09405.pdf 'Lasker' and 'chess' no doubt co-occur quite strongly in their Internet corpus.
- ggggtez 8y ago
  On the other hand, it comes up with "Beagle" and "Labrador" as synonyms of "cat". Color me unimpressed. This seems like something that has been done before, and the fact the paper has no references indicates to me that the author maybe didn't do background research. While [0] is different, I could have sworn I've seen a paper which discussed creating puns in this fashion. [0] http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W05-1614 http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W05-1614
  - gwern 8y ago
    Maybe you saw https://llamasandmystegosaurus.blogspot.com/2017/05/alpha.html https://llamasandmystegosaurus.blogspot.com/2017/05/alpha.ht... a year or two ago which does something similar in generating rhyming definitions, also using a word2vec approach.
  - Jack000 8y ago
    fasttext and word2vec only encode contextual similarity, they're not meant to generate synonyms.

hliyan 8y ago

Source code: https://github.com/jonadsimon/entendrepreneur-web/blob/master/app/portmanteau.py https://github.com/jonadsimon/entendrepreneur-web/blob/maste... Paper (just 2 pages): https://nips2018creativity.github.io/doc/entendrepreneur.pdf https://nips2018creativity.github.io/doc/entendrepreneur.pdf

gwern 8y ago

Also discussed on SSC: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/24/ot122-openne-thread/#comment-724333 https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/24/ot122-openne-thread/#c...

gbear605 8y ago
Where do you think I found it? ;)

ar-nelson 8y ago

An excellent way to invent new Pokémon: element + animal "electric"+"rat": - dynamole - hydroach - electrodent

ConceptJunkie 8y ago
Electrodent is perfect for Pikachu, but, unsurprisingly, much less appealing.

zemo 8y ago

poop + politician = craparatchik. the math checks out.

kirubakaran 8y ago

Idiot + Friend = Dumbigo (dumb/amigo) I'll be using that!

sogen 8y ago

nightmairline

deegles 8y ago

I put in "software engineer" and got 'technologyologist'... which feels right!

antihero 8y ago

Software + Engineer -> electrontrepreneur. So true, nowadays.

skaomatic 8y ago
I found this one too, and registered the .com - lol!

samstave 8y ago

President Trump: contradictator (contradict/dictator)

samstave 8y ago
haha I love that I am being downvoted for the output of this service/bot

sshanky 8y ago

I was hoping to see motel from motor and hotel, brunch from breakfast and lunch.

tasty_freeze 8y ago

crypto + currency = greenbackdoor

thruflo22 8y ago

https://www.punchlinedesign.net/pun_generator/lazy+fox https://www.punchlinedesign.net/pun_generator/lazy+fox Stop being such a grumbeaver (grumpy/beaver)! Genious!

ggggtez 8y ago

A think the right way to test such a tool is to start with a list of known portmanteaus or rhymes, and check if the tool successfully finds them, and with what precision and recall. Just having people plug in words and find things that they find interesting is going to result in people feeling it's better than it actually is. I tried a few examples, and while some of the outputs seemed "OK", they missed what seemed like obvious puns that I know exist in the lexicon because I was able to massage the inputs until it found them.

ConceptJunkie 8y ago
I think the first step would be to use a tool for word selection that does a better job finding actual synonyms instead of "words that are vaguely the same". The phoneme matching aspect of it obviously works very well. I think if you had more control over the words it would use, you'd get better results. See my comment about "politician" above. I've repeated tried combinations with the word politician in them, and none of the synonyms I would expect to show up ever showed up.

thinkstorm 8y ago

https://www.punchlinedesign.net/pun_generator/Venture+capital https://www.punchlinedesign.net/pun_generator/Venture+capita... rhymes with... misallocation exploration.

thinkstorm 8y ago

"Hacker" "News" - gossipculture - newsworthief - subculjournal

yesenadam 8y ago

I'd love to see a version for non-US English. Seeing "AA" for sounds like the 'o' in 'pot' is..very strange. And it gives rhymes like shock bach SH.AA.K B.AA.K which I guess only rhyme in the USA.

rayalez 8y ago

Evil Corporation > sindustry (sin+industry) Small Business > slenderprise (slender/enterprise), businessmany (businessman + many), revenuemerous (revenue/numerous) Boring Movie > screenplazy (screenplay/lazy) Stupid Idea > retardicle (retard/article) These are so good!

ConceptJunkie 8y ago

This is a really cool implementation, and I'm impressed with the examples given. So, I did what every obnoxious person would do and put in "stupid" and "politician", but I didn't get any real good results, mostly because it didn't use any of the synonyms for "politician" that I would expect... like president, senator, congressman, governor, prime minister (would it even deal with compound words?) or even the most obvious: politician! Instead it used these words: moralist, orator, critic, rabbi, teacher, entrepreneur, philanthropist, leader (OK, that one is good), economist, attorney, prelate, administrator, constituent, assemblyman, and assemblywoman. Everyone of these was either not really a kind of politician, or a pretty obscure word. Now some of these portmanteaus were pretty clever through the matching of phoneme clusters, and not just exact ones, but similar ones, and that's what's really cool about this tool, but ultimately I couldn't get what I was looking for! At the very least it should use the words you entered! Nevertheless, I definitely want to play with this more. So, to the authors I'd say they've built something really cool and I'm looking forward to seeing how it can be improved.