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Re: Show HN: Browse recently expired, pronounceable domain names

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Post by JosephRedfern »

runnel wrote: post #2

Nice. I wonder what methods and tools did you use for defining pronouncability. Care to share some tips? Just curious about language-oriented programming.

I also wonder what differences there are between a word that is, say 80% pronounceable, and one that is 60% pronounceable. Is it not a binary thing?

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Post by davman »

runnel wrote: post #2

Nice. I wonder what methods and tools did you use for defining pronouncability. Care to share some tips? Just curious about language-oriented programming.

I'm not entirely sure it is functioning correctly, I'm struggling to pronounce:

100% thlla.com 100% sohyw.com

etc. I like the idea though.

Re: Show HN: Browse recently expired, pronounceable domain names

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Post by BjoernKW »

runnel wrote: post #2

Nice. I wonder what methods and tools did you use for defining pronouncability. Care to share some tips? Just curious about language-oriented programming.

Off the cuff I'd use a phonetic algorithm such as Soundex or Metaphone for mapping strings to abstract phonetic representations. These could then be run through simple regular expression pattern matching. There's a fairly limited set of syllable structures in English that make for pronounceable words.

As with many linguistic algorithms this approach is not language-agnostic though. If you wanted to predict the pronounceability for a language other than English you'd need different algorithms and patterns.

A much more sophisticated approach (as opposed to the heuristic one above) would involve training a Markov model (with characters as states). More probable words (i.e. those containing a likely sequence of characters) are more likely to be easily pronounceable.

Re: Show HN: Browse recently expired, pronounceable domain names

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Post by iopq »

davman wrote: post #4
runnel wrote: post #2

Nice. I wonder what methods and tools did you use for defining pronouncability. Care to share some tips? Just curious about language-oriented programming.

I'm not entirely sure it is functioning correctly, I'm struggling to pronounce: 100% thlla.com 100% sohyw.com etc. I like the idea though.

sohyw I would imagine would be pronounced "so hew" so according to the algorithm it's pronounceable

but really the domain name I want is one that is SPELLABLE, not pronounceable

Re: Show HN: Browse recently expired, pronounceable domain names

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Post by spiritplumber »

kevinwang wrote: post #5

syrupysex.com... I wonder who registered that domain name...

http://www.reddit.com/r/xkcd/comments/2iyz0v/what_happened_t... WetRiffs actually was a thing for a bit.

Domain names are less important lately, I guess. I just want something short so it's easy to type on a soft keyboard and put in a QR code.

Re: Show HN: Browse recently expired, pronounceable domain names

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Post by alphydan »

spiritplumber wrote: post #9
kevinwang wrote: post #5

syrupysex.com... I wonder who registered that domain name...

http://www.reddit.com/r/xkcd/comments/2iyz0v/what_happened_t... WetRiffs actually was a thing for a bit. Domain names are less important lately, I guess. I just want something short so it's easy to type on a soft keyboard and put in a QR code.

bribedates.com ... sound pretty dodgy too
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