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brogrammer2018 wrote: post #141

Complete List (so far) of this X Does Not Exist sites: • This Person Does Not Exist https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ • These Lyrics Do Not Exist https://theselyricsdonotexist.com/ • This Cat Does Not Exist https://thiscatdoesnotexist.com/ • This Rental Does Not Exist https://thisrentaldoesnotexist.com/ • This Waifu Does Not Exist https://www.thiswaifudoesnotexist.net/ • This Resume Does Not Exist https://thisresum…

This Exist Does Not Exist.... coming soon!

Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

#143

Post by SilasX » Wed, May 13, 2020, 10:09 PM UTC

I was honestly surprised this one didn't already exist, since it's such a natural extension of the roots:

reductory

re·duc·tory

relating to or denoting products of decay

"winding and burning reductory tissue"

https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/reductory/eyJ3IjogInJ...

Edit: fixed mono spacing.

Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

#144

Post by novalis78 » Wed, May 13, 2020, 10:11 PM UTC

There is a universe of new startup names to be discovered. “Is your startup name pre- or post-GPT2”?

Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

#145

Post by StephenSmith » Wed, May 13, 2020, 10:11 PM UTC

Hmmm... https://i.imgur.com/APdPrS9.png

Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

#146

Post by leafmeal » Wed, May 13, 2020, 10:14 PM UTC

This gave me a good laugh

    noun.
    swem

    the process of forming a strip of mucus before injecting intravenously
    "semen started to emerge immediately after swemting"

https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/swem/eyJ3IjogInN3ZW0i...

Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

#147

Post by dpau » Wed, May 13, 2020, 10:14 PM UTC

brogrammer2018 wrote: post #141

Complete List (so far) of this X Does Not Exist sites: • This Person Does Not Exist https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ • These Lyrics Do Not Exist https://theselyricsdonotexist.com/ • This Cat Does Not Exist https://thiscatdoesnotexist.com/ • This Rental Does Not Exist https://thisrentaldoesnotexist.com/ • This Waifu Does Not Exist https://www.thiswaifudoesnotexist.net/ • This Resume Does Not Exist https://thisresum…

hmm not really complete, more here: https://thisxdoesnotexist.com/

also: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=%22does+not+exist%22

Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

#148

Post by downshun » Wed, May 13, 2020, 10:28 PM UTC

Erwin wrote: post #136

Very impressive. It was reminiscent of the Polish sci-fi writer, Stanislaw Lem who invented more words than Shakespeare. That made for some tricky translations. Here's a list of new words in just one of the books alone: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/User:Hal_Bregg_II/Neologisms_... This 1961 book predicted what Lem calls "opton", an electronic book reader with only one page between the covers (Kindle Opton special f…

It would be neat to do this with different dictionary training sets such as a legal dictionary or biology glossary. I wonder if it could generate useful creative ideas in the mind of a professional.

Or, if feeling contentious, other wordspaces https://gender.wikia.org/wiki/Category:Gender_Identities

Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

#149

Post by benjismith » Wed, May 13, 2020, 10:31 PM UTC

This is delightfully clever.

I'm the developer behind http://prosecraft.io so I always enjoy learning about new linguistic toys :)

Thank you!

Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

#150

Post by madrox » Wed, May 13, 2020, 10:31 PM UTC

Ok, this one made me laugh. Well done.

  facetook
  face·took
  an instance of talking with no expectation of truth or accuracy
  "a complete facetook of her statements"