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Thanks for the feedback! We're just starting out and this is an excellent stress test for us... Any other concerns or comments are greatly appreciated. Alliter
by seventytwo 13y ago
Thanks for the feedback! We're just starting out and this is an excellent stress test for us... Any other concerns or comments are greatly appreciated.
Alliteration and portmanteau are a given for something like this. However, we designed the site to be able to handle submissions like foreign words, obscure English words, and also completely made-up words. Additionally, the scenarios don't necessarily need to be word-less lexical gaps! They can describe something which may already have a bunch of words associated with it - the WFT platform being used, in that case, as a voting (or popularity contest) system for the existing slang. Last, to counter the practicality of UD, WFT has the ability to search based on the scenarios and keywords. Once our databases are bit more filled out, users will be able to come to the site to search for a situation and see the most commonly-used (or most clever or whatever) words for that.
I do agree, however, that it may take some effort and some tweaking of the site to encourage something more than the lowest-common-denominator submissions from the general public. Then again, there's a trade-off there between improving content and alienating potential users.
Thanks for the feedback though! Lots to think about!
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