Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

#181

Post by gsich » Wed, May 13, 2020, 11:57 PM UTC

"infocenter"?

Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

#182

Post by flipsticks » Wed, May 13, 2020, 11:58 PM UTC

I've just realised this tool is great for inventing new species or spells for my DnD campaign. Things like "Lollyfish" "Bannabeat" and "Sanaf" sound like awesome little plants or creatures to decorate my world with!

Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

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Post by turtlesoup » Thu, May 14, 2020, 12:00 AM UTC

saagarjha wrote: post #93

cosbynator wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Add to the list of reasons I wish I could change my HN name

Try emailing the mods, they do this occasionally.

It worked! Thanks for the tip

Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

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Post by outside1234 » Thu, May 14, 2020, 12:03 AM UTC

Good company name generator :)

Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

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Post by thr0w__4w4y » Thu, May 14, 2020, 12:08 AM UTC

Oops. It just served me up “undefined” as a word that doesn’t exist. (Not an error message - it literally gave me “undefined” complete with definition after generating a few good ones)

Interesting nonetheless.

Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

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Post by turtlesoup » Thu, May 14, 2020, 12:08 AM UTC

flipsticks wrote: post #182

I've just realised this tool is great for inventing new species or spells for my DnD campaign. Things like "Lollyfish" "Bannabeat" and "Sanaf" sound like awesome little plants or creatures to decorate my world with!

That's a cool idea! I know nothing about DnD; do people usually write the campaigns down and/or compose with a tool?

Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

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Post by turtlesoup » Thu, May 14, 2020, 12:09 AM UTC

icoder wrote: post #178

Opened the site and got this, is this just the AI or is this due to trolling? cracula (crac·ula) crocodiles attached to the genitals, typically with the anus protruding from much to their outermost point "eating those cracula have no effects on the penis"

Just AI, it's getting... creative.

Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

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Post by turtlesoup » Thu, May 14, 2020, 12:11 AM UTC

NeroVanbierv wrote: post #95

ku·ber·netes - a swelling of the cornea beneath the eye, caused by fluid aspiration, typically occurring as a form of secondary hairlike cloud formation during movement

That's an accurate description of how I was feeling when deploying the site and learning kubernetes for the first time.

Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

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Post by yreg » Thu, May 14, 2020, 12:22 AM 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…

Here’s the quote of the 1961 e-reader prediction: https://i.imgur.com/e1x76Nz.jpg

Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

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Post by zubi » Thu, May 14, 2020, 12:25 AM UTC

This one almost exists:

dexterious dex·te·ri·ous dizzy; full of excitement, energy, rage, etc "they met secretly and dexterious"