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That's a fun poem for making your Chinese-speaking friends laugh. For English speakers, a similar kind of tongue-twister is The Chaos (Dearest Creature in Creat

That's a fun poem for making your Chinese-speaking friends laugh. For English speakers, a similar kind of tongue-twister is The Chaos (Dearest Creature in Creation): https://www.hep.wisc.edu/~jnb/charivarius.html https://www.hep.wisc.edu/~jnb/charivarius.html I'm (still) trying to learn Chinese, using my own web app to split words, romanise them, and translate them separately. https://pingtype.github.io https://pingtype.github.io The hardest challenge for Chinese NLP is word spacing. I'm amazed that they still haven't welcomed the space character. English without spaces could be really confusing! Consider what happened with URLs: "thepenismightierthanthesword", "expertsexchange", "psychotherapist". That's amusing for single words, but I wonder if we could go longer. If there's any poets here, I'd like to hear your best examples of English sentences that make sense, but with a different meaning, if spaces were added in different places.

haskal 8y ago
You wrote Pingtype? I love Pingtype! It is a pinned tab on my browser because I come across Chinese words so often (fellow learner here!) I think not spacing Chinese is a problem that gets solved through experience. The word groupings will be of 2-3 characters max unlike English where words can be 1-12 letters long (unless it is for nouns like 喜马拉雅 = xi3ma3la1ya3 = Himalaya). The examples you gave are edge cases but I am sure you can read "butishouldstoptypingnow" just fine. You never though to segment the word as "bu-tish-ould..." because you have an expectation of sentence and type of words that fill positions in the "<conjunction> <subject> <aux verb> <verb>..." format.
- peterburkimsher 8y ago
  Wow, really? I have a user?! You seriously just made my day! I've wasted so much time on that side project, to finally hear that someone else cares about it is so encouraging. Please email me - I've got lots more Pingtype data that I collected and parsed, but didn't upload yet.

haskal 8y ago

You wrote Pingtype? I love Pingtype! It is a pinned tab on my browser because I come across Chinese words so often (fellow learner here!) I think not spacing Chinese is a problem that gets solved through experience. The word groupings will be of 2-3 characters max unlike English where words can be 1-12 letters long (unless it is for nouns like 喜马拉雅 = xi3ma3la1ya3 = Himalaya). The examples you gave are edge cases but I am sure you can read "butishouldstoptypingnow" just fine. You never though to segment the word as "bu-tish-ould..." because you have an expectation of sentence and type of words that fill positions in the "<conjunction> <subject> <aux verb> <verb>..." format.

peterburkimsher 8y ago
Wow, really? I have a user?! You seriously just made my day! I've wasted so much time on that side project, to finally hear that someone else cares about it is so encouraging. Please email me - I've got lots more Pingtype data that I collected and parsed, but didn't upload yet.