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Re: Spellfucker

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post #23

Ju kud tejk ej lengvich from ej diferent lengvich femili tu erajv et samfink similr. For furdr obfaskejshn ju kud juz diferent transliterejshn. Slavik pipl shud fajnd dis kvajt ridebl.

I could also read it OK, with concentration (not Slavic). Ai theenke thet eefe ay red laikh theiss four ey uayl eye wood gette phassterh kueekh-Lee.

Edit: όλσο, ουάν κούντ υιούζ σούπερ γουίερντ Γκρήκ κάρακτερς. (also, one could use super weird Greek characters)

Re: Spellfucker

#52
post #37
post #30

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Akszualli dis is en obsfuskejszon juzing an akszual slawik lenguydz (uidaut juzing speszal slawik karakters but that // łud potenszalli bi iwen more obfuskejted). Ol klir?

All clear, yes except for 'uidaut' and 'łud' -- is the latter "would"?

uidaut = without

łud = would

Re: Spellfucker

#53
post #3

Interesting idea though I don't agree with his statement: > The goal of the project is to make text hard to read for computers yet fairly easy to read for humans I found it impossibly difficult to read and I'm an native English speaker. I'd wager people who studied English as a second language might find it harder.

I would say it is probably the other way around. I found it trivial, yet I have spent a total of 5 weeks in an English speaking country.

We are already used to deciphering English spelling,which is arbitrary at best.

I found that I am usually better than my British colleagues at understanding broken English. I suspect it has a lot to do with how you listen to a language.

Re: Spellfucker

#54
post #23

Ju kud tejk ej lengvich from ej diferent lengvich femili tu erajv et samfink similr. For furdr obfaskejshn ju kud juz diferent transliterejshn. Slavik pipl shud fajnd dis kvajt ridebl.

Funny, am Swede and thought this was written by a Scandinavian!

Re: Spellfucker

#55
post #23

Ju kud tejk ej lengvich from ej diferent lengvich femili tu erajv et samfink similr. For furdr obfaskejshn ju kud juz diferent transliterejshn. Slavik pipl shud fajnd dis kvajt ridebl.

Ju kud mejk jt horrorshow jf ju fjlly wjs vocabulary ala Anthony Burgess' Nadsad.

On a related note:

For my Russian friends it was obvious that Chewbacca is Chelovek (man) + Sabaka (dog) while I would have never made that connection.

Re: Spellfucker

#56

"The goal of the project is to make text hard to read for computers yet fairly easy to read for humans" At first look it doesn't pass the search engine test. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=I%27ve+bien+aloune+whyth+jou+eensi...

Obscuring "I've" sneaks Lionel past the Duck.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=eyeve+bien+aloune+whyth+jou+eensid...

Re: Spellfucker

#57
post #13

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Seconded. Definitely unreadable. For anyone who didn't click through, a line from their self-chosen sample: >'kause jou gnaw jusd wuaed thoe sai

The trick is to run it through your "phonetic processor." Try pronouncing it out loud quickly and smoothly while listening to the sound of your voice. I couldn't quite read it directly, like I do with normal English text, but with a moment's practice I was able to do the phonetic step internally without actually vocalizing.

but "thoe" read that way is a word (i.e. "though"), and th is basically never pronounced as a hard t the way the line I quoted has it meant to be read. "wuaed thoe sai" is somehow meant to be deciphered as "what to say." I would say nobody reading using your method (or any other) can read it correctly. The other comment, for example, misread it (generously) as "they", to make it make sense grammatically. "you know just what they say."

The problem, very simply, is that's just not what the text says.

Re: Spellfucker

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Italian here with a quasi-native command of the English language. It's very hard to read. My mind tends to parse the words as if they were to be read literally. E.g.: "I soumetymese scie jou pes outcyde mi dour" In my mind, "soumetymese" reads as "s-how-meh-teemesseh". "Scie" in Italian means trails. That automatically reads as "she-eh" (not "see"), as it's supposed to be pronounced in Italian. "Jou" reminds me of th…

> "I soumetymese scie jou pes outcyde mi dour" Yes and "pes" surely doesn't remind me of "pass" but something entirely different and quite probably offending.

Indeed, that was the only word I had problems with, so I had to check the original lyrics.

Re: Spellfucker

#59
Seeing comments on this thread, I find hacker news turning into Reddit. Instead of tech discussion/pro-cons or some progressive discussion we are having some random comments. Now for down voters you are allowed to slay me!

Re: Spellfucker

#60
post #3

Interesting idea though I don't agree with his statement: > The goal of the project is to make text hard to read for computers yet fairly easy to read for humans I found it impossibly difficult to read and I'm an native English speaker. I'd wager people who studied English as a second language might find it harder.

I actually found it quite easy to read and English is my second language. Maybe it's the other way around and native speakers have a harder time, since the way things are written is more ingrained in their thinking.

The only time I had to check the original lyrics was for the passpes substitution, since I couldn't figure it out and the only candidate I arrived at was just silly ("piss") ^^

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