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Ask HN: A tool for writing English that checks “popularity” of used sentences?
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Re: Ask HN: A tool for writing English that checks “popularity” of used sentences?
#42I wonder if there is a tool like this: 1. You enter a sentence 2. It gives out 5 different ways to say the exact same thing. Such a tool not only would help ESL people but also it would help native speakers find more relaxed or formal versions of a sentence.
Perhaps one way to make such a tool would be to try replacing each word with one of its synonyms but that wouldn't change the form of the sentence.
I thought at first that it might be worth using Google Translate (or Bing, etc.) to translate a sentence from English into a language and back again. I was surprised to find that most of the results are grammatically incorrect and at least one, while almost grammatically correct, has a quite different meaning (Eng. -> Latin -> Eng.).
And unfortunately there wasn't much variation to be seen either.
It seems that the verb to be is easily mangled and that some languages seem to require a definite article where the original English does not.
Original English: It's actually quite rare for sentences to not be unique.
Spanish: En realidad es bastante raro para frases para no ser único.
Back to English: It's actually quite rare for phrases not to be unique.
German: Es ist eigentlich ziemlich selten für Sätze nicht einzigartig sein.
Back to English: It's actually quite rare for phrases not to be unique.
Japanese: 文章は一意ではないことは実際には非常にまれです。
Back to English: Sentence is very rare in practice is not unique.
French: Il est en fait assez rare pour les phrases à ne pas être unique.
Back to English: It is actually quite rare for phrases not to be unique.
Polish: To rzeczywiście dość rzadko zdania nie być unikalna.
Back to English: It's actually quite rare sentence not be unique.
Hebrew: זה בעצם די נדיר משפטים לא להיות ייחודיים.
Back to English: It's actually quite rare sentences not be unique.
Italian: In realtà è abbastanza raro per le frasi di non essere unico.
Back to English: It's actually quite rare for the sentences not to be unique.
Latin (but which era?): Suus 'vere non esse unica sententia admodum rarum.
Back to English: It's really not very rare, is a single sentence.
Romanian (which some say is similar to Latin!): Este de fapt destul de rar pentru fraze să nu fie unic.
Back to English: It's actually quite rare for phrases is not unique.
Re: Ask HN: A tool for writing English that checks “popularity” of used sentences?
#43I wonder if there is a tool like this: 1. You enter a sentence 2. It gives out 5 different ways to say the exact same thing. Such a tool not only would help ESL people but also it would help native speakers find more relaxed or formal versions of a sentence.
We're building a tool that does something similar but for email. Currently we're targeting cold sales emails- the idea is, you enter a recipient's email and we aggregate data about them and surface relevant, personable sentences that you can use in the email. You'll also be able to change the tone of these sentences (funny, professional, casual, etc.) Learn more: http://emailfox.co
don't want to sound harsh, but the copy of your website does not inspire much confidence for a tool that i am supposed to use for writing.
Re: Ask HN: A tool for writing English that checks “popularity” of used sentences?
#44I can suggest http://samedaypapers.com/. It always helps me)))
Re: Ask HN: A tool for writing English that checks “popularity” of used sentences?
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
We're building a tool that does something similar but for email. Currently we're targeting cold sales emails- the idea is, you enter a recipient's email and we aggregate data about them and surface relevant, personable sentences that you can use in the email. You'll also be able to change the tone of these sentences (funny, professional, casual, etc.) Learn more: http://emailfox.co
don't want to sound harsh, but the copy of your website does not inspire much confidence for a tool that i am supposed to use for writing.
You're not harsh at all- i'd appreciate feedback, what parts do you think we should improve?
I'll admit we kind of rushed the sign up page as we've been busy building the product.
Re: Ask HN: A tool for writing English that checks “popularity” of used sentences?
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
We're building a tool that does something similar but for email. Currently we're targeting cold sales emails- the idea is, you enter a recipient's email and we aggregate data about them and surface relevant, personable sentences that you can use in the email. You'll also be able to change the tone of these sentences (funny, professional, casual, etc.) Learn more: http://emailfox.co
Something like this will only work if your clients don't screw it up by spamming the same targets over and over. If you can somehow get it through to your clients that they should only ever spam one target once, then hell, I'm for it.
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Re: Ask HN: A tool for writing English that checks “popularity” of used sentences?
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
We're building a tool that does something similar but for email. Currently we're targeting cold sales emails- the idea is, you enter a recipient's email and we aggregate data about them and surface relevant, personable sentences that you can use in the email. You'll also be able to change the tone of these sentences (funny, professional, casual, etc.) Learn more: http://emailfox.co
Something like this will only work if your clients don't screw it up by spamming the same targets over and over. If you can somehow get it through to your clients that they should only ever spam one target once, then hell, I'm for it.
Yup, agreed. I think overtime we'll also try to compensate for this by build a ML model from all the emails being sent to provide more 'fuzziness' to it.
Re: Ask HN: A tool for writing English that checks “popularity” of used sentences?
#48If you can read Chinese, there's interesting tool:
http://www.pigai.org/guest2016.html
It extracted common phrase from the sentences with explanations & suggestions & count usages from corpus.
Re: Ask HN: A tool for writing English that checks “popularity” of used sentences?
#49You might like to check out writeful: http://writefullapp.com/
Great app. Are you working on Android version as well?