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A AI etymology deconstructor – can guess fake words (deconstructor.ayush.digital)
youdont 1 minutes ago [-]
It really struggled with Antidisestablishmentarianism
ohlookcake 7 minutes ago [-]
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
rvense 20 minutes ago [-]
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.

jonplackett 9 minutes ago [-]
I love this kind of thing. It’s weird how many words we use without having any idea what they mean.

Words always end up getting broken with speech in a different way to the meaning.

Eg I put in pandemonium which you say as pande-moniun but I just learned is pan-demon-ium which makes a lot more sense!

Very cool. Well done.

thih9 31 minutes ago [-]
When I asked it to deconstruct "Babbage"[1] I got "Derived from Babba's place", Some others:

- phonenose: The ability to detect sounds or voices through the nose

- legpc: Acronym for Laptop Easy Personal Computer

- gitls: A command in Git to list files

- housefreezing: The action of hardening a house with cold

- uncleftish beholding[2]: The act of viewing something that is whole

Also, the title looks editorialized, it's currently "A AI etymology deconstructor – can guess fake words", but the website says just "deconstructor.".

In any case it's fun to play with and the UI is nice too.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncleftish_Beholding

msds 50 minutes ago [-]
It doesn't really detect stringing together latinate nonsense, so all of my coinages got perfectly coherent definitions. On the flip side, I guess if you're erudite and willing to butcher other languages for sport, nothing has ever stopped you from making up perfectly quasiaryiumaryesque words.
ithkuil 24 minutes ago [-]
I tried a nonsensical:

https://deconstructor.ayush.digital/w/Deundehydrate

"to reverse the process of reversing the removal of water"

There is clearly no such word, but a human would probably infer such a meaning.

I'm amazed at how unamazed we all seem to have become at such feats. We need more deunnamazing

Fission 44 minutes ago [-]
This is fun, but what I think would be even more interesting and potentially actually useful would be to generate a word from multiple ideas — to help express complex ideas in one word. Like Frühstücksbrotübersättigung
novemp 51 minutes ago [-]
"Can guess fake words"? It told me "shitbutt" was a real word.
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