I think that by "can guess fake words" in the title OP means that the tool can come up with a plausible guess for the etymology, even for fake words. Unfortunately, the more common reading of that phrase is that it can tell fake words from real ones
A AI etymology deconstructor – can guess fake words
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#12It really struggled with Antidisestablishmentarianism
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#13I think that by "can guess fake words" in the title OP means that the tool can come up with a plausible guess for the etymology, even for fake words. Unfortunately, the more common reading of that phrase is that it can tell fake words from real ones
Agree. It does a good job at coming up with a plausible meaning of novel words like "multiarborality" → "the state of relating to many trees" but it doesn't indicate that this is a "fake" word even though I just made it up.
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#14It actually knows about "Lisa the Iconoclast". Cool.
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#15I 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.
Try “helicopter” for a real mind-blow.
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#16It did not like supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
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#17I think that by "can guess fake words" in the title OP means that the tool can come up with a plausible guess for the etymology, even for fake words. Unfortunately, the more common reading of that phrase is that it can tell fake words from real ones
Agree. It does a good job at coming up with a plausible meaning of novel words like "multiarborality" → "the state of relating to many trees" but it doesn't indicate that this is a "fake" word even though I just made it up.
>> even though I just made it up
One person inventing a word that they have never heard before doesn't negate the possibility of that word being in common use somewhere.
https://books.google.ca/books/about/Arboreality.html?id=S95Y...
"An expansion of the 2020 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award winning story. Arboreality is a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award and the winner of the 2023 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction."
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#18Very cool to use initially, but then completely locks you out with a modal in your face demanding an email address. That is despicable and you should be ashamed.
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#19I'll no longer misunderestimate AI
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#20I think that by "can guess fake words" in the title OP means that the tool can come up with a plausible guess for the etymology, even for fake words. Unfortunately, the more common reading of that phrase is that it can tell fake words from real ones
Agree. It does a good job at coming up with a plausible meaning of novel words like "multiarborality" → "the state of relating to many trees" but it doesn't indicate that this is a "fake" word even though I just made it up.
Doesn't look fake to me. English is not a closed-world language, as far as I know.
Between things like "verbing" and "nouning", and the cultural acceptance of doing them in casual speech, I'd say English is a great language because you get to "invent" new words on the fly, and your interlocutors know what you mean.
In this sense, even if no one before ever said or wrote "multiarborality", it's pretty clear what it means (as long as you don't misread it), and IMHO it's perfectly fine to derive its etymology by deconstructing it back to "common" words and pulling etymology on those, recursively.