Fakelish – Fake English word generator

Coming soon to a Teams meeting in front of you ;-) Amazing!

As well as the associations with [1], this also made me think of one of my favourite essays, "Horsehistory study and the automated discovery of new areas of thought"[2]

[1] https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/ [2] https://interconnected.org/home/2021/06/16/horsehistory

Nice idea, naive implementation which leads to the output being unconvincing as hypothetical English words. I had a brief look and it seems to be proportionally selecting and sticking together sequences of letters sampled from English words (lib/word-probability.ts). This doesn't take into account syllable boundaries, the way the English spelling system maps between phones/phonemes and the phonotactic properties of English which is why the output looks unconvincing.

A better approach would be to use a markov chain built from sampling English text letter-by letter... an even better approach would be to build your stats from some source of English words in IPA transcription with syllable boundaries etc marked, then map from IPA to spelling via some kind of lookup table. We use a similar process in reverse in my research group for building datasets for doing Bayesian phylogenies of language families

I got Donsize. It's when the family handles the layoffs

Portmanteau's are absobloddylutely fun. Though a bit cruel upon those learning the language.