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Show HN: WerdMerge: A Portmanteau Generator With Phonemes
- handler 16y agoi made this to brainstorm domain names
- albedoa 16y agoThis is a great idea. I like the name, too.
- kilovoltaire 16y agohaha disobeethoven and laundromatrimony! so the stars favorite things / make them show up at bottom?
- handler 16y agodominosebleed
- currycurry 16y agobe careful with your phrasing i'm semanticklish. you can't be such a cavalyricist.
- meatsock 16y agothis is cool but i'm not sure i get how the input affects the output? the results don't seem related.
- handler 16y agoyou put in a word, and then it finds words that overlap phonetically in the front and in the back (left and right side of the page)...
- kilovoltaire 16y agoyeah some of my (techy) friends didn't get that you should just type in a single word. simple solution to this would be gray text in the empty field: "type a word" or something like that.
- meatsock 16y agomy confusion i think stems from the fact that it looks like the results (with the star above) on the bottom happen when i was hitting the merge button (with two words in the box). when in fact the results are not the seemingly random one at the bottom.
- slmbrhrt 16y agoWas 'wordmanteau' already taken?
- kilovoltaire 16y agoYeah 'word' does seem preferable to 'werd'. > whois wordmanteau.com No match for "WORDMANTEAU.COM".
- currycurry 16y agowordmanteau is clearly wrong
- ComputerGuru 16y agoExcept no one knows how to spell portmanteau or its derivatives.
- acabal 16y agoI was extremely confused at first because I put in two words in the input box, and clicking 'merge' would do nothing. When I see 'merge', I expect that it will somehow merge the two words I've entered. You should change that button or at least add some text so it's a little more obvious what's going on. Or maybe add some code to alert the user that only one word is expected if/when they enter two.
- danteembermage 16y agoWhen I think of notable portmanteaus e.g. chortle, chillax they don't often fit with the formula of matching whole phonemes at the end of the first word and the beginning of the second (Chortle uses the first phoneme, the middle phoneme of word two, then back to word one to finish). That said, the werdmerge discovered concept of a chillaxative made me chortle a bit.
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- klochner 16y agoFun - it really brings out my juvenile side: We denydealized a few crapplicants for bonership.
- handler 16y agothose are all great domain names!
- mnemonicsloth 16y agoIf you're getting your phonemes from an IPA dictionary, couldn't you check for emphasis too? Seems like you'd want to match words that begin and end in weak syllables, e.g. Beethoven + veneer = Beethoveneer (overwrought, superficially emotional music). You can also pair strong syllables: sorbet + Bayes = Sorbayes (dessert ordered on the condition that real ice cream is unavailable). But putting a weak last with a strong first wrong-foots you: Beethovunforgiven. EDIT: in case it sounds like I'm nitpicking, I love this.
- handler 16y agothe hardest part about this site for me was finding a good dictionary of words->phonemes... unfortunately what i found did not come with emphasis. if you want to try to find a better dictionary for me i'd check it out. good luck though with the way google's search is these days ;?j
- humblest_ever 16y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby_Thesaurus#Pronunciator http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby_Thesaurus#Pronunciator ? I had a similar idea a while back, using this as a resource, but no time to do it :)
- KaeseEs 16y agoCarnegie-Mellon's phonetic dictionary provides vowel stresses, which may get you closer to where you want to be
- Nycto 16y agoYou might consider adding a popup or a footer note that describes what the stars with exclamation points do. My guess is that they either report a profane word or bookmark a word combination, but I couldn't tell you for sure. Clicking on one didn't give me much either.
- atgm 16y agoUsing Opera 11 -- the text in the box doesn't auto-erase when I go to type something in. This is super cool, though.
- syllogism 16y agoThere's a small, recent scholarly literature on this in computational linguistics, referring to these as "lexical blends". This journal article is the most prominent publication, I believe: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/coli.2010.36.1.36104 http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/coli.2010.36... . The first author, Paul Cook, did a dissertation on them.
- thristian 16y agoSlightly disappointed that entering "hardcore" didn't bring up favourites like "bardcore" or "wizardcore". Still, pretty great!
- Sniffnoy 16y agoWhat exactly does clicking on the star do? Is there any way to get it to show how the merged word would be spelled?
- handler 16y agoclicking a star votes for a combination. top voted combinations show up at the bottom of the page. showing how a merge would be spelled is a pretty tough problem. if anyone had any clever ideas about this, i'd love to hear it.