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Conclusion from the video: """ Meed for 30 like WTF is that well I guess it technically matched my requirements so I'll give it a B minus and call it a a i
by lofenfew 2y ago
Conclusion from the video:
"""
Meed for 30 like WTF is
that well I guess it technically matched
my requirements so I'll give it a B
minus and call it a a it does generally
reduce the number of syllables in a
paragraph by 30%
I suppose it even has some kind of pro
to it I was kind of hoping it would be
mostly intelligible for English speakers
without having to learn a bunch of new
words but that's not exactly the case
there's just too many words to make a
mapping that's immediately obvious and
unambiguous at least with my simple
method most individual word mapping seem
"""
If the goal was to be intelligible, you could probably adapt the method to be more successful. For one, I would drop the requirement to not create more homophones. Since you're hoping people will guess what the word means based on what it sounds like, you can afford to have it sound like several things and let them distinguish based on context. Besides that, according to the established rules, you could turn a single multisyllabic word into multiple monosyllabic words. Suppose you turned "better" into "more good". This is technically monosyllabic, and immediately obvious in meaning to any english speaker. You might also squeeze multiple synonyms into a single word, for example "attempt" could be turned into "try", rather than attempting to come up with a legible one syllable variant of it. Doing these things wouldn't be as faithful to the seeming goals of the project, but the result might be more interesting in terms of semi-comprehensible english.