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I once tried to start a reverse dictionary, an obscurantorium: look up a normal word to turn it into caliginous locution. I didn't get far, so I'm glad to see o

by tgv 3y ago

I once tried to start a reverse dictionary, an obscurantorium: look up a normal word to turn it into caliginous locution. I didn't get far, so I'm glad to see other people have brought it to grotesque heights.

VMG 3y ago
ChatGPT does a nice job of this. > [Prompt]: Let's create a reverse dictionary, an obscurantorium: look up a normal word to turn it into caliginous locution. > [ChatGPT]: Absolutely, that sounds like a fascinating endeavor! Let's turn a few everyday words into some delightfully arcane vocabulary. > Water - Aquatic Adamant > Sun - Celestial Candescent > House - Domiciliary Edifice .... > In the spirit of our obscurantorium, the sentence "You have been automated" could be transmogrified to: > "Thou hast been actuated into automatonian existence."
- tgv 3y ago
  Nice find. More death metallic: the occupation of your putrified soul was annihilated by a myriad of matrices, incinerating your banal enunciations in Envidia's convolution.
- rollcat 3y ago
  At long last, a proficient occasion for vast lexical colossi to unfurl their malevolent prowess.