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Re: This word does not exist

#51
This is pretty good. There's a logic to language that allows this (along with all sorts of other domains).

I remember trying this with a friend of mine back in high school, making up realistic sounding words in order to chun each other, making the other believe it was a real word. The natural path is to go Latin (chromozymatic), but sometimes you find a simple sound that ought to be a word.

Re: This word does not exist

#52
Might want to add a filter. The seventh or eighth word I got was a racial slur: n-word bar (compound word I don't care to type).

That's the problem you get when you feed the whole Internet into your training data.

Re: This word does not exist

#53
eletronic (of a word, expression, or development) affected by chance but more likely to cause sorrow or disappointment "a vivid eletronic expression of grief"

Too real.

Re: This word does not exist

#57
post #21

That would make an interesting word game: mix in unusual words and you have to guess which ones are real. I bet some would get adopted eventually.

"The game comprised two teams of three (a captain and two guests) who would compete to earn points by determining the correct definitions to obscure words. The teams took turns to give three definitions, one true and two bluffs, while the other team attempted to determine which was correct. If the correct choice was made the team earned one point, if not, the bluffing team earned one point. Both teams took turns turns bluffing and determining definitions.

Examples of words used in the show, taken from a 1972 book published in connection with the it, include "queach", "strongle", "ablewhacket", "hickboo", "jargoon", "zurf", "morepork", and "jirble". "Queach", for instance, was defined as "a malicious caricature", "a cross between a quince and a peach" and "a mini-jungle of mixed vegetation". The first and second of those were bluffs. "

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_My_Bluff

Re: This word does not exist

#60

This is pretty good. There's a logic to language that allows this (along with all sorts of other domains). I remember trying this with a friend of mine back in high school, making up realistic sounding words in order to chun each other, making the other believe it was a real word. The natural path is to go Latin (chromozymatic), but sometimes you find a simple sound that ought to be a word.

"Chromo" and "zyme" are both Greek rather than Latin, though.
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