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Every possible pun of the form ‘You put the X in Y’
- Veen 6y agoAmusing, although you should remove examples where Y is just the plural of X. I got "You put the rooftop in rooftops."
- mFixman 6y agoEven worse, "you put the climatologists in climatologist". Still, I love when small people silly personal projects get promoted in HN. We should have more of these.
- techbio 6y agoGood start--now if you can only make them funny.
- triceratops 6y agoAdd a thumbs-up/down button, train a neural net. Easy peasy.
- asdfman123 6y agoAs a compulsive punner I object to the expectation they're supposed to be funny. I pun for mental stimulation, and to make everyone around me cringe.
- CamelCaseName 6y agoSome of these are a bit suspect... > YOU PUT THE OOOHS IN DEPOSE
- triceratops 6y agoThey seem to be accent dependent.
- forddavis 6y agoJust encountered > YOU PUT THE )PARENS IN (BEGIN-PARENS. Although arguably more of a feature than a bug
- SamBam 6y agoYeah, it doesn't look like it's just string matching. YOU PUT THE MINNER IN PETROMINERALS. YOU PUT THE GUINN IN GINSU. YOU PUT THE READER IN TREDER. Seems like doing it "wrong" like this would actually be harder? I'm a bit confused.
- ddingus 6y agoDid you include: "You put the foo in bar?" Fun lark, I laughed at some. Wondered at some others.
- lqet 6y ago> YOU PUT THE EXACT IN INEXACT.
- triceratops 6y agoCan't wait to use that one someday.
- westcort 6y agoGood one!
- jayd16 6y agoThis reminds me of precision vs accuracy.
- asdfman123 6y agoOh lordy, I've got a thing to say about your Javascript. You could keep the word pairs server side and retrieve them as the page is accessed... or at the very least if you're going to store all your data in a static file you could store them in an array to save space, instead of the whole links. You could get real fancy and make some kind of soundex map thing. Question: did you just break each word into syllables, and find soundex matches? No worries, though, I like the compulsive punning. I just like talking about things on the internet.
- westcort 6y agoI just did string matching (on about 7.6 billion items 133000^2) and matched the pronunciation portion. It’s a fun lark.
- Xevi 6y agoWhat the... Is that a function with a 560000+ lines long comment inside of it, that gets turned into a string, then sliced, and split on newlines, then assigned to a global variable that gets used in another global function? It took a minute just to open the source code in my browser. Chrome used 5.2GB of RAM while viewing the source code, just for that tab.
- umvi 6y agoYeah! Just goes to show you can make a cool thing that is really quick and dirty under the hood. You could make this page load instantly by making the random selection happen in the backend instead of in the browser, but then I guess it would no longer just be a static file. You could also just have a compact array of pairs and then generate the sentences in the browser instead of having half a million pre-generated strings.
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- Gene_Parmesan 6y agoThis is one of those things I would have just assumed was impossible, so never would have tried. Not that I should try something like this, mind, but it is a good reminder not to underestimate these machines we have.
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- wnissen 6y agoThis reminds me of the time I needed to generate some names for testing, and I simply combined the Social Security list of most common first and last names at random. It turns out that the vast majority of possible name combinations are terrible. Not quite "Sleve McDichael" from the notorious Super Famicon game, but close. Like this, I could read through a whole page of names before finding one that scans. Bennett Takeshita, e.g., is effectively unpronounceable. https://www.avclub.com/check-out-these-wonderful-american-names-from-a-90s-j-1819219155 https://www.avclub.com/check-out-these-wonderful-american-na...
- westcort 6y agoI like this idea!
- BernardTatin 6y agoDid you put the French in some fries?
- rflrob 6y agoI noticed there's a few cases where a th sound puns with a t sound. For example, you put the OUGHT in ROTHMEYER. Intentional due to loose matching? Uncertainty in pronunciations? Or is this a bug where the θ phoneme is represented as the digraph th?
- westcort 6y agoI just did an index of match, so the t from th could have matched. It was quick and dirty, but it’s just for fun, so please forgive those
- peterburkimsher 6y agoI like it! I started making a similar kind of page before as a brainstorming challenge: "noun is like a noun". 2 people could sit in front of the screen, and the first person to guess how the nouns are similar would win the point. http://peterburk.github.io/programs/nounIsLikeANoun/index.html http://peterburk.github.io/programs/nounIsLikeANoun/index.ht... I'd also like to make a pun dictionary of similar-sounding words in English & Chinese, using the data I already gathered for Pingtype.
- voisin 6y agoIt would be neat to let people vote up and down to give some social value component.
- westcort 6y agoGood idea!
- gok 6y agoSome de-stemming would make these work a lot better: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stemming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stemming
- westcort 6y agoDefinitely something I could do with a quick regex. Great idea!
- WClayFerguson 6y agoI had calculated the square of the number of words in the dictionary and was disappointed to see that some were missing on the site.
- westcort 6y agoJust used CMUDICT 0.7 which had 133000 or so entries, so there could be others if you used the OED. I did learn a lot of words from this though
- Asraelite 6y agoWhat pronunciation dictionary did you use? I've been looking for a good one that 1. includes variant pronunciations, and 2. distinguishes all phonemes, e.g. considers Rosa's and roses distinct. So far I haven't found any that fulfill these criteria.
- westcort 6y agoI used CMUDICT v0.7
- lopmotr 6y agoSaw one that makes sense "You put the insel in tinseltown".
- smnrchrds 6y agoIs there a way to search in the list? I want to see if it has caught "put chalk in chocolate" (typically used regarding to Hershey's).
- klodolph 6y agoI'm going to stick with my favorites. Put the romance in necromancer and Put the fun in dysfunctional.
- westcort 6y agoGreat!
- tobyhinloopen 6y agoThese are the best
- erik_seaberg 6y ago“Gee, boss, you really know how to put the fun in funeral.”—Harley Quinn
- pontifier 6y agoGot "man in romance" and thinking about chaining a few of these together now.
- twiceaday 6y agoWould be good to prioritize popular words, if that data is out there.
- MagnumPIG 6y ago"You put the Dinosaur in Dinosaurs" Get outta here!
- saghm 6y ago"YOU PUT THE RHEAULT IN CROSSNO" "YOU PUT THE OUGHT IN REAUTHORIZE" I'm not positive what's going on here, but it seems like it's incorrectly detecting syllable divisions? If it thinks that the division is between "o" and "s" in the first and between "t" and "h" in the second, those results would make sense. I don't think anyone actually pronounces "reauthorize" like "warthog", though...
- commandlinefan 6y agoThird result: > YOU PUT THE WHICHEVER IN WHICHEVER.
- koliber 6y agoTechnically correct, which is the best kind of correct.
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- kthejoker2 6y ago6 winners among a sea of .. not .. winners. You put the SCENES in Francine's. You put the DORIS in Maquiladoras. You put the UNDER in underwriting. You put the SOMETHING in Twentysomethings. And the two actual puns: You put the RACY in Gracie. You put the BROAD in Broadway.
- abakker 6y agoYou put the KILLED in unskilled
- tomcatfish 6y agoWow, some of these are really unique and would be EASILY missed by simpler string matching. I had to read some out-loud to understand Faves: > YOU PUT THE OUGHT IN WATERCOLORS. > YOU PUT THE REITAN IN FRIGHTENED. > YOU PUT THE EFFICIENTLY IN INEFFICIENTLY . > YOU PUT THE BORED IN DEBORD. > YOU PUT THE FARAH IN PHEROMONES. (!!?)
- matsemann 6y ago> YOU PUT THE DICKS IN DICTIONARIES This is great! Just wish it was possible to filter out uncommon words. I have no idea what half of them means or how they're supposed to be pronounced (non-native).
- duskwuff 6y ago> > YOU PUT THE FARAH IN PHEROMONES. (!!?) "Farah" and "phero-" are both pronounced ˈfɛrə ("fair-ruh").
- _Microft 6y ago> YOU PUT THE SPORT IN TRANSPORTING. This is a nice one.
- tasty_freeze 6y agoMy favorite lexical pun, but not auditory, is "You put the laughter into slaughter".
- jayd16 6y ago>YOU PUT THE BITCH IN OBITUARY. Welp, I have to say it's a resounding success.
- kgwxd 6y agoI got: YOU PUT THE BISCH IN AMBITION :)
- freetime2 6y agoA couple of these actually made me laugh out loud. Nice job!
- westcort 6y agoThanks! It makes my day that this could make someone laugh!
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- mabbo 6y agoI feel that to really make this work you would need to filter words with common origins. Like, if one word appears in the dictionary definition of the other word, they likely aren't going to be funny. Examples: YOU PUT THE REFINE IN REFINERY. YOU PUT THE DETECT IN DETECTS. YOU PUT THE POLYTECHNOLOGY IN POLYTECHNOLOGIES. But words with no commonality at all and a good rhyme are brilliant. YOU PUT THE RUDENESS IN SHREWDNESS.
- default-kramer 6y agoHmm, rhymes don't really do it for me. I might even filter out rhymes if I built this. I've heard humans use this format often enough, and I don't think I've ever heard someone use a rhyme. It's just too easy. Putting "the cologne in colonialism" is significantly better.
- cwkoss 6y agoYeah, I think the currently allows 1-phoneme differences. I think it would be better if it only allowed 2-3+ phoneme differences when at the end of the word. -s -ies -y arent interesting suffixes.
- WilTimSon 6y agoThere are also some that are just nonsensical but when you read a dozen of these in a row, they feel actually kind of funny. Just tunes your brain to a different wavelength.
- tyingq 6y agoI'd have missed "YOU PUT THE ARRAY IN ARRAYS", which felt apt.
- harimau777 6y agoRemoving perfect nouns for the "in Y" part might also help.
- djbeadle 6y agoI love it, but I don't know a lot of these words! If the author is reading I think a nice small improvement would be to prefix the Google search with "define" (as in: "define ${word}") to invoke Google's dictionary function.
- westcort 6y agoGreat idea! I was not aware if that!
- daotoad 6y agoI got YOU PUT THE SWAYZE IN SWAYZE. There really needs to be a filter to block these kinds of results. I wish the word links would let me navigate the set of puns rather than going to google. X links should let me see all the combos that have the same word in the X position. Y links should do the same thing, mutatis mutandis.
- jtokoph 6y ago"YOU PUT THE {BRACE IN {OPEN-BRACE" takes the cake
- nullsense 6y agoYOU PUT THE CON IN CONGRESS. Ooooh. Topical. Edit: also YOU PUT THE ERICA IN AMERICA. That's adorable.
- guerrilla 6y agoThe latter was in Stranger Things: "You can't spell America without Erica"
- nullsense 6y agoMaybe they should do a You Can't Spell X without Y snowclone generator next. Detractors of the popular genre of music often trot out the old adage "you can't spell crap without rap", but what most people fail to realize is that you can't spell fish and chip shop without hip hop.
- tyingq 6y agoSince you're already on the dad joke train, what's the opposite of "con"-gress? Progress.
- AnthonyMouse 6y ago> YOU PUT THE CON IN CONGRESS. If the opposite of pro is con then the opposite is progress is...
- Jugurtha 6y agoI read the site as loserendipity.com and thought it was a nice pun.
- patrickthebold 6y agoI'll add my favorite: You put the 'b' in subtle.
- doodlebugging 6y agoYOU PUT THE I IN TEAM I probably screwed that up. Oops, I just made that up.
- hyperdimension 6y agoWell, you know what they say: "There's no 'I' in 'TEAM,' but there's always room for you in the 'A'-hole."
- doodlebugging 6y agoNever heard that. Pretty funny! Thanks!
- AnthonyMouse 6y agoYou put the RUSTED in DISTRUSTED. You put the PYHRRIC in EMPIRICALLY. You put the ALLAH in CLIMATOLOGIST. You put the ICING in ENTICING. You put the SCENT in DISINCENTIVE. It includes names though, which are almost never interesting: You put the REECE in RECENTLY.
- arthurjj 6y agoLooks pretty great. If someone is looking to do something similar the NLTK has a library with mappings to the pronunciation or you can use soundex. I used the NLTK library for answering "How many rhymes are there in English"[1] but the phonemes were in a different format than IPA. I don't know if there is something similar to the NLTK library with the mappings but for IPA [1] https://medium.com/@the_ajohnston/how-many-rhymes-are-there-in-english-9ab81029ebdf https://medium.com/@the_ajohnston/how-many-rhymes-are-there-...
- cwkoss 6y agoYOU PUT THE MARTYR IN SMARTER. nice Also, YOU PUT THE NATION IN EXTERMINATION. YOU PUT THE SEWER IN PURSUER. YOU PUT THE SIGH IN UNDECIDED. YOU PUT THE ARREST IN OVERESTIMATE. YOU PUT THE TROLL IN UNCONTROLLED. YOU PUT THE GODLESS IN IRREGARDLESS. (Kinda need a Boston accent for this one)
- Gene_Parmesan 6y agoMight be worth pointing out for any mobile users that PunGenLink.html is a hefty 93mb download.
- FiatLuxDave 6y agoIt has my favorite one, which I've actually heard used in conversation in the South: YOU PUT THE DICK IN DIXIELAND
- dripton 6y agoYOU PUT THE WHEELCHAIR IN WHEELCHAIR. Might want to exclude this kind of trivial case.
- cafard 6y ago"We wonder Mr. Babbage does not invent a punning engine; it is just as possible as a calculating one." --Walter Bagehot, "The First Edinburgh Reviewers", an essay of 1855. You can find the essay at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101068581279&view=1up&seq=93 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101068581279&vi... . [Edit: removed stray colon.]
- westcort 6y agoThis is amazing! I guess we have gone full circle. This also ties in to the other thing locserendipity.com does. It is a corpus of all pre-1918 books. Just use site:locserendipity.com in Google.
- mgkimsal 6y ago"You put the laughter in slaughter" Please tell me this one is in there...
- goodmachine 6y agoAh, nice. (mutters to self) another project I did not complete.
- noahsmitty 6y agoYOU PUT THE SIMPSON IN SIMPSON'S. Thanks