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"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...
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!
It's a tired trope and I don't think it ever added anything to the discussion, not on /b/, not on Reddit and not on HN.
This is probably my least favorite kind of shitpost.
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Which means that it is unreadable - because that's not what it says! You couldn't read it.
A high, high percentage of the translated text is easily readable. A few edge cases doesn't make it unreadable.
So your comment would translate to:
>A high, high percentage o--- the translated text is e--- readable. A few edge c--- don't make it unreadable.
Does that make this scheme okay? It's 80% easily readable!
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 find that this is very much mindset thing. I once "learned" a toy language used for communication in a role playing game (Dym'Yak, of the Dimday Tribe, of Defias Brotherhood EU server in World of Warcraft if anybody cares). The point was to make a language that seemed like gibberish to outsiders, but was parseable by members. The rules were simple - a small dictionary of special words (say a hundred game specific w…
I think the issue I have is I tend to parse words visually rather than phonetically.
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Obscuring "I've" sneaks Lionel past the Duck. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=eyeve+bien+aloune+whyth+jou+eensid...
Check the 3rd result, it's the lyrics.
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I find that this is very much mindset thing. I once "learned" a toy language used for communication in a role playing game (Dym'Yak, of the Dimday Tribe, of Defias Brotherhood EU server in World of Warcraft if anybody cares). The point was to make a language that seemed like gibberish to outsiders, but was parseable by members. The rules were simple - a small dictionary of special words (say a hundred game specific w…
I appreciate what you're saying but (if I understand you correctly) I think that example is quite a bit different to what's happening here as you're talking about is learning a completely new language rather than parsing intentionally misspelt english words. Unless you're saying the written form of your language was extremely loose on spelling? I think the issue I have is I tend to parse words visually rather than ph…
The difficulty in learning it lay, as you point out, in that people tend to parse words visually rather than phonetically. The challenge was to alter your mindset while reading, to try to parse the words phonetically rather than visually. Once you learned to do that, it was fairly easy to use it - but yes, it took some practice.
Of course I understand that these examples are not interchangeable. I just wanted to offer my observation after actually having spent some time doing something similar to what this site tries to do "for real" (well, if you can consider an RPG real:)
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.
Æss a nårvidsjæn itt vassent tu hard tu riid jur vraiting laik dis. Aj vånder håo diffikult itt iss får a slav tu ønderstænd nårvinglisj.... Edit: and now I feel like Petter Solberg. [1] [1] https://youtu.be/Kaeh8FRPANs?t=4s