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Re: Show HN: FoxType – Using NLP to help you write more politely

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Post by jaymzcampbell »

pavornyoh wrote: post #3

Good job first of all.. So out of fun, I typed in "the dudes and dudettes were here" to test your system. The neutral responses as rewrites were a bit worrying. You may want to look into it. Congrats on it. EDIT: @Mikkiq, thank you for taking those words out promptly and correcting it. Cool site.

Agreed, it's nicely put together. I think this could grow into a handy tool, like an advanced thesaurus of sorts.

Not sure if it was another word, but the word 'dudes' still has a suggestion to a word I'd firmly rank 'impolite' when I tried just now. That said it includes a whole bunch of swear words (marked impolite) - I could weirdly see using this to add a bit of flair to a put down.

I do find these things quite fun; I put in "You are a sexy beast" and got "You are a hot dog" as neutral, "You are a beautiful dog" as neutral but "You are a beautiful horse" would be pushing it and impolite; though "You are a glamorous horse" (or hot) is neutral.

Giving it a go with some Donald Trump twitter text, the suggestion was "President Obama was terrible on @60Minutes tonight" is impolite; a suggested change that would be more polite was "President obama was incredible on@60minutes last night.". I noticed with that it looped through the same words a few times - in some cases labelling the same phrase as both neutral and polite.

Re: Show HN: FoxType – Using NLP to help you write more politely

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Post by tomc1985 »

Disagreeing with the 'politeness' assessment of some of these words... type in 'Howdy' and the only "polite" words are "Welcome" and "Goodbye".

More troubling to me is that this feels more like one person trying to impose their definition of "polite" onto others, and many of the suggestions seem result in speech that is weak, weasel-y, or lacking a feeling of weight.

Re: Show HN: FoxType – Using NLP to help you write more politely

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Post by pavornyoh »

jaymzcampbell wrote: post #21
pavornyoh wrote: post #3

Good job first of all.. So out of fun, I typed in "the dudes and dudettes were here" to test your system. The neutral responses as rewrites were a bit worrying. You may want to look into it. Congrats on it. EDIT: @Mikkiq, thank you for taking those words out promptly and correcting it. Cool site.

Agreed, it's nicely put together. I think this could grow into a handy tool, like an advanced thesaurus of sorts. Not sure if it was another word, but the word 'dudes' still has a suggestion to a word I'd firmly rank 'impolite' when I tried just now. That said it includes a whole bunch of swear words (marked impolite) - I could weirdly see using this to add a bit of flair to a put down. I do find these things quite f…

@Jaymzcampbell,

The suggested rewrite for "the dudes and dudettes were here" and gave it a 60/100 and a neutral response was

"The N(hint: for black) and fellas were here". All in all, this is a neat site for when I am angry and need to be polite with words.

I like the responses you got though. I can see myself using you are a glamorous horse:)

Re: Show HN: FoxType – Using NLP to help you write more politely

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Post by chavesn »

I used this to check the text messages from Key and Peele's "Text Message Confusion" skit[1]:

Keegan: "I've been trying to reach out to you all day, are we on for tonight?" Polite (71 / 100)

Jordan: "Sorry dude, missed your texts. I assumed we'd meet at the bar. Whatever, I don't care." Polite (71 / 100)

Keegan: "Do you even want to hang out?" Impolite (30 / 100)

Jordan: "Like I said, whatever." Neutral (47 / 100)

Keegan: "Jesus, you are fucking priceless" Impolite (30 / 100)

Jordan: "You're the one who's fucking priceless!" Impolite (6 / 100)

Keegan: "You wanna go right now?" Impolite (31 / 100)

Jordan: "Ok let's go" Polite (76 / 100)[2]

Keegan: "You wanna really do this now?" Impolite (13 / 100)

Jordan: "Fuck yeah, let's do it" Impolite (19 / 100)

Jordan: "First round's mine" Neutral (43 / 100)

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naleynXS7yo

[2]: Adding a "." to the end of the "Ok let's go" drops it by three points to 73 / 100

Re: Show HN: FoxType – Using NLP to help you write more politely

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Post by [deleted] »

pavornyoh wrote: post #3

Good job first of all.. So out of fun, I typed in "the dudes and dudettes were here" to test your system. The neutral responses as rewrites were a bit worrying. You may want to look into it. Congrats on it. EDIT: @Mikkiq, thank you for taking those words out promptly and correcting it. Cool site.

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