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Fakelish – Fake English word generator

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Re: Fakelish – Fake English word generator

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Post by newsbinator »

jaclaz wrote: post #4
annetipasto wrote: post #2

Can anyone tell me more about how this works? Most of these don't resemble English words at all to me lol, wondering what the generative procedure/parameters are in the first place

I find much more interesting: http://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/ as it also fakes the definition. But if you want to write some Vogon like poetry, the words generated by Fakelish might be just fine.

dynoderma

dyn·o·derma

a slender, membranous musclelike structure, believed to represent a cross between a cranium and the external spaces of fish and invertebrates, supporting the glans in most vertebrates

"a dynoderma is thought to have existed in all living organisms"

Re: Fakelish – Fake English word generator

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Post by BrandoElFollito »

SavantIdiot wrote: post #14

Speaking 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

For a non-native speaker of English - this sounds like lots of songs.

Tangentially related - this is how I discovered Nightwish some 15 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg5_mlQOsUQ

Re: Fakelish – Fake English word generator

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Post by KennyBlanken »

mrbukkake wrote: post #15

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 E…

Clearly you are far more of a linguist than I am, but from such a perspective, I had a similar impression; I reloaded the page several times and none of the words struck me as being remotely plausibly English. These are worse than most Hollywood scifi words/names.

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Post by bruce343434 »

mrbukkake wrote: post #15

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 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.

Re: Fakelish – Fake English word generator

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Post by themdonuts »

mrbukkake wrote: post #15

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 E…

I got "minable" on my first try and found it impressive and surprised that it wasn't a word. After 3 other reloads nothing else came up.

Re: Fakelish – Fake English word generator

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Post by LordDragonfang »

SavantIdiot wrote: post #14

Speaking 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

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