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Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

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It reminds me simultaneously of Borges and Douglas Adams.

I was gonna say that it would be cool if you could ask for the meaning of your own made-up words, and you CAN! That's basically an infinite generator of Douglas Adams's "meaning of liff" style definitions.

liff

    a short length of soft, warm linen for legs, worn especially during formal events
    "a lace liff"

Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

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Great stuff. Found a real word: refactoring the systematic and systematic reworking of a piece of text to reduce unnecessary redundancies Interesting that the made-up definition is pretty much the real one. https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/refactoring/eyJ3IjogI...

Got a few comments about that one and a few others! I just updated the existing word blacklist and re-deployed.

"fibroblastosis" -- appears to feature in some medical journals

"bryosphere" -- something to do with moss

"biosprint" -- a brand of yeast.

Many of these 'non-words' have already been taken....

Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

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Great stuff. Found a real word: refactoring the systematic and systematic reworking of a piece of text to reduce unnecessary redundancies Interesting that the made-up definition is pretty much the real one. https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/refactoring/eyJ3IjogI...

Got a few comments about that one and a few others! I just updated the existing word blacklist and re-deployed.

Unspooled and Hardstyle popped up for me. Perhaps you should do a google search for generated words before displaying them to prevent existing words from being shown.

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post #270

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I got toxoplasm, also very near but definition is just hilarious: toxoplasm tox·o·plasm (in humans) a microorganism of the alimentary canal, which forms a protective passage across nerve vessels adjacent to the colon, for example in the trachea "there is evidence that hemostasis greatly increases the risk of malaria by toxoplasm"

Toxoplasm exists, it basically makes rat suicide lemmings against cats. Also, it makes men more suicidal and women more... libidinous.

Disease is called toxoplasmosis, caused by Toxoplasma Gondii, I've heard about it, that's why I've pasted this definition. This AI has blacklist of valid words, toxoplasma is probably on list, toxoplasm is not. I don't know that much about latin, but toxoplasm looks similar to toxoplasma but is something other (sounds like a tissue to me). Toxoplasm without "a" at end probably does not exist, but I may be very wrong, so take that with a grain of salt.

> "protective passage across nerve vessels adjacent to the colon, for example in the trachea"

colon in trachea and toxoplasm(a) forming a protective passage is the funny part for me.

Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Got a few comments about that one and a few others! I just updated the existing word blacklist and re-deployed.

Unspooled and Hardstyle popped up for me. Perhaps you should do a google search for generated words before displaying them to prevent existing words from being shown.

Or maybe the ML algorithm behind is just using an existing dictionary and performs no operation.

Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

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Great stuff. Found a real word: refactoring the systematic and systematic reworking of a piece of text to reduce unnecessary redundancies Interesting that the made-up definition is pretty much the real one. https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/refactoring/eyJ3IjogI...

Got a few comments about that one and a few others! I just updated the existing word blacklist and re-deployed.

I just saw "gofundme".

Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

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Funny that in Dutch probably (at least) some of these words do exist, I mean stuff like "week broodje" (mushy little bread) and "weekbroodje" (bread of the week) have a very different meaning based on the use of a space or not. In fact, we have a nice website that focusses on the incorrect use of spaces: SOS (Signalering Onjuist Spatiegebruik) [0], notice that spatiegebruik is 1 word ("Space-use")!

[0] https://www.spatiegebruik.nl/

Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unspooled and Hardstyle popped up for me. Perhaps you should do a google search for generated words before displaying them to prevent existing words from being shown.

Or maybe the ML algorithm behind is just using an existing dictionary and performs no operation.

You flatter me by thinking so; it is a bot! The source code is open here: https://github.com/turtlesoupy/this-word-does-not-exist

Re: Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist

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Mycogeny: the formation of a mycoplasma within a cell "mycogeny was detected in liver urine and its recovery in lymph nodes remained unclear"

It’s not too far off Mycogen: As Asimov explains in Prelude to Foundation,[21] their name is formed from the Greek stems myco- (meaning 'yeast' or other types of fungi) and -gen (meaning 'maker' or 'producer').

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic_Empire_(Isaac_Asimo...

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