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Yeah, no. I tried the same word five times to test for inconsistencies. I don’t appreciate you weren’t straightforward with the limits and am not going to give you my email to “continue my language journey”. The fact you’re already using euphemisms like that makes me strongly distrust what you’d do with an email address.
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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 me…
I bet you could do that with most languages. I don’t see why English would be especially great at it.
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
At least it did say "slartibartfast" was a fictional character.
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.
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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 me…
> 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. I bet you could do that with most languages. I don’t see why English would be especially great at it.
what is a "fake word"? New terminology is coined all the time. It's one of the fundamentals of how language works.
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
Yeah I just filled in "inbreathiate", which should be a fake / made up word but this tool generates a meaning anyway... which is also neat, but the "can guess fake words" description isn't accurate. At least it did say "slartibartfast" was a fictional character.