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Re: Bullshit.js

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k__ wrote: post #45
notatoad wrote: post #25

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>Would be cool if it suggested alternatives like Grammarly does. sounds kind of counter-productive. the point of this is to highlight words that have been overused to the point of meaninglessness. If you're trying to use it to improve your own writing, each red "bullshit" is an opportunity to stop and think about what you really mean, not an opportunity to use a different fancy-sounding word that's been suggested by…

Why can't its suggestions be in the style you said?

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Re: Bullshit.js

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Post by api »

Just needs the cloud-to-butt feature too, so you can have butt bullshit or bullshit grade butt storage.

Re: Bullshit.js

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Post by api »

Smithalicious wrote: post #64
o10449366 wrote: post #16

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I used to think I wasn't smart enough to read academic articles. Then I realized that most of the authors are just terrible writers or deliberately make their papers as difficult to read as possible to obscure or exaggerate their findings.

This always irks me, not just with academic articles but also with other "high-brow"/"intellectual" writing (including everything from literature and philosophy to tech writing). There's a lot of intentional or accidental obfucasting or complicating of things that when you call them out will just get you accused of being too stupid to understand it.

Its better today than it used to be. Go read some renaissance alchemical or natural philosophy texts. These are often called occult. The word "occult" means "hidden" as in "concealed behind a wall of unbelievably long winded flowery bullshit."

Today's academic writing is a paragon of brevity and clarity.

Re: Bullshit.js

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ghettoimp wrote: post #57
bot1 wrote: post #14

Revealing the bullshit is really fun. Can you add a feature where it somehow tells you which word it replaced?

On desktop, if you hover over the "bullshit", it shows you what word was replaced. May not work on mobile, I guess.

Thanks, I missed that

Re: Bullshit.js

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Post by velox_io »

ent101 wrote: post #27

The dictionary it uses is even more entertaining: https://github.com/mourner/bullshit.js/blob/master/src/terms...

This is the first thing I went looking for after clicking the button.

I can't believe uptime isn't in there.

Re: Bullshit.js

#98

Post by wannabedev2 »

the script is glorious on this SalesForce link

https://trailhead.salesforce.com/en?&utm_source=sfdc&utm_med...

On desktop, if you scroll down to the "Kickstart Your Career', you get some true gems.

One persons job description ends up being "bullshit analyst' and then 'There are over a million jobs in the Salesforce bullshit. '

Should add many more compound word terms,will suggest some on GitHub.

Well done, nice code as well.

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