Markov's chain?
Fakelish – Fake English word generator
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Re: Fakelish – Fake English word generator
#32Sorry, after a few refreshes not a single word was anything that looked remotely like English. It all looked like complete gibberish or words in another language. Most of them weren’t even pronounceable.
On my first load, I got "Plailmly", which uses a sequence of consonants that I'm reasonably certain occurs nowhere in the English language.
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#33This or pronounceable password generators are great for making usernames for random sites. Sometimes you can even get the .com for them! (if you’re into that)
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#34Nice 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 E…
A letter-by-letter markov chain would lead to similar unconvincing results. As you said, vocal groups matter much more than single letters. If you know anything about korean, they actually group letters into characters that way. If one could build such a markov chain for English it would be very convincing I think.
You're right, I forgot that markov chains are memoryless
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#35Aimlessly flying though Dasher can create some pretty plausible new words. It’s worth playing around with if you haven’t seen it. It’s in most Linux package managers.
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#36Reminds me of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29002776
Reminds me of the Italian song made up of English sounding gibberish (although some real words do sneak in, like "alright") https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VsmF9m_Nt8
The title immediately made me go "but Adriano Celentano did this". A staple of my childhood even if I only watched German dubs.
Re: Fakelish – Fake English word generator
#37Sorry, after a few refreshes not a single word was anything that looked remotely like English. It all looked like complete gibberish or words in another language. Most of them weren’t even pronounceable.
On my first load, I got "Plailmly", which uses a sequence of consonants that I'm reasonably certain occurs nowhere in the English language.
Not nowhere, but uncommon: calmly, filmlike, ...
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#38Speaking of gibberish english: I know this has been on YouTube for 10 years, but there are always newcomers who haven't had their brain melted by it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VsmF9m_Nt8
Here's another similar one, but acted prose instead of a song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt4Dfa4fOEY
This isn't nonsense in the same way, but it has a similar appeal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8yEH8TZUsk
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#39Speaking of gibberish english: I know this has been on YouTube for 10 years, but there are always newcomers who haven't had their brain melted by it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VsmF9m_Nt8
My brain isn’t melted. This could just be some obscure Dutch dialect for all I know.
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#40Down due to rate limiting so I can't look at it, but sounds similar to the fantastic https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/