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Fakelish – Fake English word generator
- deegles 5y agoThis or pronounceable password generators are great for making usernames for random sites. Sometimes you can even get the .com for them! (if you’re into that)
- SkipperCat 5y agoSo many of the generated names sound like pharmaceutical brands... Also, if anyone is playing NYTime's spelling bee game, you've probably become pretty familiar with common english three/four letter combos and then iterate/manipulate them to find words. It all about the patterns!
- annetipasto 5y agoCan anyone tell me more about how this works? Most of these don't resemble English words at all to me lol, wondering what the generative procedure/parameters are in the first place
- jaclaz 5y agoI find much more interesting: http://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/ http://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/ as it also fakes the definition. But if you want to write some Vogon like poetry, the words generated by Fakelish might be just fine.
- newsbinator 5y agodynoderma dyn·o·derma a slender, membranous musclelike structure, believed to represent a cross between a cranium and the external spaces of fish and invertebrates, supporting the glans in most vertebrates "a dynoderma is thought to have existed in all living organisms"
- dharmaturtle 5y agohttps://raw.githubusercontent.com/nwtgck/fakelish-npm/develop/lib/word-probability.ts https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nwtgck/fakelish-npm/develo... Basically a big probability map. I'm guessing this was machine generated though, and it isn't clear to me how that was done.
- 4ensic 5y agoQuite a few cromulent words, but far from perfect.
- kaczordon 5y agoI see what you did there
- hyperbovine 5y agoI recently started playing the NYT Spelling Bee game. There you find yourself wishfully inventing a lot of plausibly English-sounding words, only to learn that indeed, (e.g.) "vilicent" is not a part of the language. IMO the quality of these words is low compared to what a human being comes up with.
- quercusa 5y agoThe first word I got was 'scrotal', which is a real word.
- shoto_io 5y agoReminds me of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29002776 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29002776
- dsizzle 5y agoReminds me of the Italian song made up of English sounding gibberish (although some real words do sneak in, like "alright") https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VsmF9m_Nt8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VsmF9m_Nt8
- SomeBoolshit 5y agoThe title immediately made me go "but Adriano Celentano did this". A staple of my childhood even if I only watched German dubs.
- jaclaz 5y agoJFYI, that Celentano's song is a famous/mainstream example of grammelot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammelot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammelot The master/pioneer of grammelot in Italy was Dario Fo, sample (of the "English" one): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A4n9Ez9O8g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A4n9Ez9O8g
- gumby 5y ago<obligatory> Jabberwocky ’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. “Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!” He took his vorpal sword in hand; Long time the manxome foe he sought— So rested he by the Tumtum tree And stood awhile in thought. And, as in uffish thought he stood, The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, And burbled as it came! One, two! One, two! And through and through The vorpal blade went snicker-snack! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back. “And hast thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!” He chortled in his joy. ’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. </obligatory>
- inglor_cz 5y agoI am aware about two translations of this poem into Czech. They are completely different from each other and both very playful.
- surfingdino 5y agoComing soon to a Teams meeting in front of you ;-) Amazing!
- delgaudm 5y agoThese read just as plausibly as "Transient companies selling low quality imported products on Amazon." If perhaps a bit too easily pronounced in English.
- scubbo 5y agoAs well as the associations with [1], this also made me think of one of my favourite essays, "Horsehistory study and the automated discovery of new areas of thought"[2] [1] https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/ https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/ [2] https://interconnected.org/home/2021/06/16/horsehistory https://interconnected.org/home/2021/06/16/horsehistory
- SavantIdiot 5y agoSpeaking of gibberish english: I know this has been on YouTube for 10 years, but there are always newcomers who haven't had their brain melted by it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VsmF9m_Nt8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VsmF9m_Nt8
- BrandoElFollito 5y agoFor a non-native speaker of English - this sounds like lots of songs. Tangentially related - this is how I discovered Nightwish some 15 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg5_mlQOsUQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg5_mlQOsUQ
- speedcoder 5y agoNobody could make up words like Frankie Smith (may he RIP 2019) in the middle of Double Dutch Bus https://youtu.be/fK9hK82r-AM https://youtu.be/fK9hK82r-AM
- genewitch 5y agoThe sound engineer on the loveline show had Dr Drew Pinsky trying to sing this song as an evergreen.
- mPReDiToR 5y agoThank you. I know this comment doesn't add anything of value to the discussion per se, but that's given me the biggest laugh I've had in months. Nightwish came into my life in the 00s, and I couldn't tell you one song meaning, yet I love the sound. This is just a perfect video, thank you for sharing.
- BrandoElFollito 5y agoUnfortunately, despite now knowing the words, the song will never sound right anymore :) Great band, though.
- LordDragonfang 5y ago
- mrbukkake 5y agoNice idea, naive implementation which leads to the output being unconvincing as hypothetical English words. I had a brief look and it seems to be proportionally selecting and sticking together sequences of letters sampled from English words (lib/word-probability.ts). This doesn't take into account syllable boundaries, the way the English spelling system maps between phones/phonemes and the phonotactic properties of English which is why the output looks unconvincing. A better approach would be to use a markov chain built from sampling English text letter-by letter... an even better approach would be to build your stats from some source of English words in IPA transcription with syllable boundaries etc marked, then map from IPA to spelling via some kind of lookup table. We use a similar process in reverse in my research group for building datasets for doing Bayesian phylogenies of language families
- KennyBlanken 5y agoClearly you are far more of a linguist than I am, but from such a perspective, I had a similar impression; I reloaded the page several times and none of the words struck me as being remotely plausibly English. These are worse than most Hollywood scifi words/names.
- bruce343434 5y agoA letter-by-letter markov chain would lead to similar unconvincing results. As you said, vocal groups matter much more than single letters. If you know anything about korean, they actually group letters into characters that way. If one could build such a markov chain for English it would be very convincing I think.
- trynumber9 5y agoStrange, most the words I saw looked Greek or Latin
- dbavaria 5y agoAs an American assumed it was more like British English.
- alanlammiman 5y agoI got Donsize. It's when the family handles the layoffs
- jnellis 5y agoI've seen most of these drugs advertised on television.
- labster 5y agoCame here to say this. For life’s more persistent problems: Ask your doctor about Subrixate today!
- Zenst 5y agoPortmanteau's are absobloddylutely fun. Though a bit cruel upon those learning the language.
- nkrisc 5y agoSorry, after a few refreshes not a single word was anything that looked remotely like English. It all looked like complete gibberish or words in another language. Most of them weren’t even pronounceable.
- clavicat 5y agoRuninal Worriably Homenite I like these, especially the last.
- LordDragonfang 5y agoOn my first load, I got "Plailmly", which uses a sequence of consonants that I'm reasonably certain occurs nowhere in the English language.
- lokl 5y agoNot nowhere, but uncommon: calmly, filmlike, ...
- thaumasiotes 5y agoTry for -ailm-.
- Kaibeezy 5y agoAilment
- thaumasiotes 5y agoAs with flailmen, you've put a syllable break (and a morpheme break!) between the L and the M. This will make continuing the sequence into -ailml- impossible, since an English syllable can't start with ml-. Interestingly, there's nothing wrong in general with starting a syllable with ml-; it's fundamentally the same mouth motion as starting with bl- or pl-, both of which are common in English. But ml- isn't allowed. This plays into a pet observation of mine, which is that an underappreciated constraint on the space of words that actually exist in a language -- as opposed to the space of words that could conceivably exist -- is that by and large they must descend from older words in an older form of the language, so that even if a word like "plailm" obeys the rules for modern English syllables, it can't exist because its precursor word would have violated the rules for older English sounds. (I don't know if this is actually true as applied to "plailm", but the phenomenon (of possible sounds failing to exist due to their precursors having been impossible) is real.)
- Orionos 5y agoMarkov's chain?
- aendruk 5y agoAimlessly flying though Dasher can create some pretty plausible new words. It’s worth playing around with if you haven’t seen it. It’s in most Linux package managers. https://www.inference.org.uk/dasher/ https://www.inference.org.uk/dasher/
- foobarbecue 5y agoDown due to rate limiting so I can't look at it, but sounds similar to the fantastic https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/ https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/
- tony-allan 5y agoThis website has been temporarily rate limited
- jcmontx 5y agoThe website got hackernewsed
- andrew_ 5y agoI want to register all of these as domain names.
- a9h74j 5y agoThe following is the text of a recent HN comment (not my own) on the subject of non-drug highs. As it suggests starting with a nonsense word, the OP fake word generator ought to suit: > It is really quite easy: have someone you know provide a nonsense word. In needs to have no logical sense or connections to to anything - pure nonsense. Then, with that phrase held in your most present and loudest inner voice you repeat that phrase in your head. Repeat it over an over, forcefully to drive any other thoughts or thought fragments out of your mental conversation(s) (at all mental conversation levels, if you have more than one going at once). After a few minutes of forceful repeating, it echoes on it's own, and a few realization moments later 20-30 minutes have passed and it feels like waking from a refreshing dream. When in the "state", it really can't be described because it is whatever your imagination and recent experiences feedback froth back and forth. It's relaxing and refreshing, and a great way to clear one's head when working on difficult complex mental goals.
- kottaram 5y agoI'll be honest... the words dont look convincing XD