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Show HN: Duplicate Word Finder
- finnhvman 4y agoFind duplicate words and eliminate them from your writings
- bobnamob 4y agoDuplicate word removal seems like a naive, coarse grained method to improve writing style. Smells like the high school trope of throwing a thesaurus at your essay and hoping for the best
- finnhvman 4y agoSomeone commented something similar on reddit a while ago, and it is a very good argument to be honest. Still, you might find some situations where the tool might be useful and it's already deployed, so people can use it if they want
- llanowarelves 4y agoYep, it's actually what we were taught in high school. Still, sometimes recognizing duplicate words points out some bad/imprecise wording where you're repeating yourself and may not like that. I find myself using the "edit" feature on comments online a decent amount to catch/add things I only found when reading it back in complete form.
- pastage 4y agoChatGPT: "Are any of these sentences repetition of each other" Most educational literature from the US are rife with sentences that might not be verbatim repetition but most certainly say the same with a different word soup.
- tgv 4y agoIt doesn't even find inflections, such as plural/singular. But as a writing tool, it can only lead to contrived constructions that seem to be the realm of sports journalists: "The multiple medal winner" ... "Last year's 500 meter champion" ... "The Londoner" ... "The former law student" ... when referring to one and the same person during a race. I do like that it lists them on the side, and allows you to remove them.
- oneeyedpigeon 4y agoUncritical duplicate removal, yes. But I edit a lot of work and duplicated words are one of the things that I see time and gain, really dragging writing down. IMO, removing duplicates is one of the cheapest wins, a very easy way of making improvements so long as you do it at all reasonably.
- londons_explore 4y agoWrite "the the the the the the" Result:. "No duplicate words found"
- londons_explore 4y agoPerhaps a better model might be to look at word frequency analysis, and highlight words that are used substantially more frequently than in typical English text.
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- suddenclarity 4y agoSeems reasonable that those types of words are eliminated for the purpose of the tool. Either by having a letter limit or by whitelisting them. Of course there will be duplicates of "the" and "and".
- notRobot 4y agoThey're called "stop words".
- oneeyedpigeon 4y agoUnfortunately, it's just a letter limit; lower it and the "the"s get highlighted. Support for stop/common words would definitely be a good upgrade.
- coffeeri 4y agoYou might have to adjust the minimal word length to 3.
- finnhvman 4y agoyou can use the first slider on the toolbar to set the minimum word length, default is 4 (or the third button on the toolbar if you're on phone or smaller screens)
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- rwoerz 4y agoThere is no no use for that.
- rlv-dan 4y agoI'm sure you've thought about every single possible situation to conclude your insightful comment. Otherwise... There is no use for your comment.
- oneeyedpigeon 4y agoRe-read their comment.
- layer8 4y agoIf they didn't notice the duplication, there is no use in removing it?
- oneeyedpigeon 4y agoBut this tool would have helped them spot it in the first place.
- layer8 4y agoBut for what purpose, then?
- oneeyedpigeon 4y agoI think they were just making a sarcastic point - i.e. the tool has lots of uses!
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- 00117 4y agoWhen I press the cmd key on my mac on Chrome, all the text disappears.
- finnhvman 4y agothe initial text on the site is the instructions. I can agree it's somewhat a questionable design, but I wanted to make sure that the instructions are there for newcomers and easy to clear for the regular users. So any action on the editor will clear the instructions, but the text you type is safe.
- tobr 4y agoIt’s very surprising, the instructions disappear and there’s no obvious way to get them back. Undo doesn’t work, for example. Maybe consider selecting all the text on the first click/focus in the textarea. That way it’s still there but a regular user can just paste, type, or hit backspace to get rid of the instruction. Undo would let you get it back. Nice to see Svelte in the wild here, by the way.
- finnhvman 4y agoGood ideas on the instructions, will work on it! Yeah, coming from React I really liked coding in Svelte, hope to see it grow more!
- d4damager 4y agoI always wondered whether they use something like this for BBC Radio 4’s “Just a minute”. For those not familiar, it’s a radio panel game where the panelists must speak on a subject for up to a minute without hesitation, deviation or repetition. I imagine they would need a screen like this to highlight repeated words for the host (perhaps in combination with some speech recognition, or stenography).
- pastage 4y agoThe competitors are free to protest and try to gaslight you into believing you made a mistake. Part of the fun is beingable to give a good explanation as to why the protest is wrong. The game is a friendly social one, at least the one in Swedish is done like that. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A5_minuten https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A5_minuten
- chillbill 4y agoThe original BBc one is like that. It’s supposed to be fun and not too pedantic and as far as I know Nicholas Parsons didn’t rely on anyone other than the whistle to know when the minute is over. It’s a very fun radio show. I recommend the available episodes on Audible (or other means) to get the radio collections. As a side note, do you know where one can get a hold of the Swedish one? I know SR doesn’t have it anyone at least.
- philipwhiuk 4y agoThat would ruin the entire thing.
- stevekemp 4y agoSpeaking on a subject probably makes it more complex, but reading your description I had a sudden memory of Timmy Mallett's word-association game, from the UK back in the day. The aim there is to reply spontaneously to random words, without hesitation and repetition. If you fail you get hit on the head by a foam-mallet.
- pseingatl 4y agoAdded text, page hangs.
- clarkdale 4y agoFeature request to find duplicates within words contains underscores or hyphens. I want to use this for reading documentation. I often find myself struggling with acronyms like JWT_AUTH and JWT_OKTA so this would help me visually identify and mentally map the use of common terms.