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A AI etymology deconstructor – can guess fake words

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Re: A AI etymology deconstructor – can guess fake words

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It doesn't really detect stringing together latinate nonsense, so all of my coinages got perfectly coherent definitions. On the flip side, I guess if you're erudite and willing to butcher other languages for sport, nothing has ever stopped you from making up perfectly quasiaryiumaryesque words.

Re: A AI etymology deconstructor – can guess fake words

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When I asked it to deconstruct "Babbage"[1] I got "Derived from Babba's place", Some others:

- phonenose: The ability to detect sounds or voices through the nose

- legpc: Acronym for Laptop Easy Personal Computer

- gitls: A command in Git to list files

- housefreezing: The action of hardening a house with cold

- uncleftish beholding[2]: The act of viewing something that is whole

In any case it's fun to play with and the UI is nice too.

Note, the title looks editorialized, it's currently "A AI etymology deconstructor – can guess fake words", but the website says just "deconstructor.".

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncleftish_Beholding

Re: A AI etymology deconstructor – can guess fake words

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post #4

It doesn't really detect stringing together latinate nonsense, so all of my coinages got perfectly coherent definitions. On the flip side, I guess if you're erudite and willing to butcher other languages for sport, nothing has ever stopped you from making up perfectly quasiaryiumaryesque words.

I tried a nonsensical:

https://deconstructor.ayush.digital/w/Deundehydrate

"to reverse the process of reversing the removal of water"

There is clearly no such word, but a human would probably infer such a meaning.

I'm amazed at how unamazed we all seem to have become at such feats. We need more deunnamazing

Re: A AI etymology deconstructor – can guess fake words

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Fyllipig is derived from "fyllan" and "pigge" and means "descriptive of something that is both full/abundant and pig-like."

Terryjambled means "mixed up in a confused or disorderly state, and covered with or resembling terry cloth."

Refugglemander means to "to manipulate electoral district boundaries in a way that impacts refugees."

I'm sorry, OP. This just isn't very good.

Re: A AI etymology deconstructor – can guess fake words

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I love this kind of thing. It’s weird how many words we use without having any idea what they mean.

Words always end up getting broken with speech in a different way to the meaning.

Eg I put in pandemonium which you say as pande-moniun but I just learned is pan-demon-ium which makes a lot more sense!

Very cool. Well done.

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