"existential" + "angst" yields some great results, including despairitual (despair/spiritual), tormentological (torment/ontological), and sartrevail (sartre/travail)
I would even go so far as to say he should just take that word out of his dictionary. There's never a time that it should serve it as a suggestion, IMO.
The results are just incredible. The depth of the project is very deep. Case in point, chess+clock yields hourglasker (hourglass & Lasker). Lasker was a German chess champion, well known in chess circles but the average person would have no idea who he is.
I wonder if this is using wikipedia or dbpedia to walk a graph and find words to stick together. That's the only way I could think of doing this.
On the other hand, it comes up with "Beagle" and "Labrador" as synonyms of "cat". Color me unimpressed.
This seems like something that has been done before, and the fact the paper has no references indicates to me that the author maybe didn't do background research. While [0] is different, I could have sworn I've seen a paper which discussed creating puns in this fashion.
So, you agree with me then. You can't say "What do you call a sleepy cat? A /grumbea-gle/ (grumpy-beagle)!" It's a portmanteau, sure, but it is not really even close to the input. Using word2vec here is probably wrong, or should have different pruning for word variance. It's a flaw of the technique and choices of the author.
That doesn't quite do him justice - Emanuel Lasker was world champion for 27 (!) years, 1894-1921, a record not likely ever to be surpassed. And a mathematician (e.g. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laskerian_ring ) and fine writer. In fact I learnt to play from Lasker's Manual of Chess. It's very poetic in places, e.g.
On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long. The creative combination lays bare the presumption of a lie; the merciless fact, culminating in the checkmate, contradicts the hypocrite.
edit: I guess you knew that if you were trying chess + clock hehe.
That's really cool, but as I described above, my experience was different. The phoneme matching is really impressive but the word selection functionality seems pretty weak.
I had better luck with "large" and "cat" which gave me "colossalot", as in "colossal ocelot", which is a real winner.
However, I don't want to dismiss the hard work that went into this tool, despite my criticisms. It's very, very cool.
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[ 3.9 ms ] story [ 123 ms ] thread"tarmackerel"
I am complete.
Againyway... that's odd https://www.punchlinedesign.net/pun_generator/%21+%21
whenyway suckordingly anyhowever whenyhow https://www.punchlinedesign.net/pun_generator/!+.
passport escort
nymphomaniac backpack
whore explore
euphemism tourism
The Portmanteaus are even better.
timid + programmer => softwary (software/wary)
spaghetti + mom yields:
grandpasta mommytball spagheteenager spagheteen fettuccineice
I think I found my next online nickname: "grandpasta flash"
Britain and exit yields: Briturn - I think the signs have spoken
"Pointless" "Meeting" -> Morondezvous
I think it just found the perfect word for my daily life.
artificial intelligence = smartificial (smart/artificial)
garbage collector = debriscycler (debris/recycler)
I wonder if this is using wikipedia or dbpedia to walk a graph and find words to stick together. That's the only way I could think of doing this.
This seems like something that has been done before, and the fact the paper has no references indicates to me that the author maybe didn't do background research. While [0] is different, I could have sworn I've seen a paper which discussed creating puns in this fashion.
[0] http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W05-1614
'It doesn't matter whether a cat has floppy ears or yellow fur so long as it catches mice.'
"Any dog under fifty pounds is a cat and cats are useless."
That doesn't quite do him justice - Emanuel Lasker was world champion for 27 (!) years, 1894-1921, a record not likely ever to be surpassed. And a mathematician (e.g. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laskerian_ring ) and fine writer. In fact I learnt to play from Lasker's Manual of Chess. It's very poetic in places, e.g.
On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long. The creative combination lays bare the presumption of a lie; the merciless fact, culminating in the checkmate, contradicts the hypocrite.
edit: I guess you knew that if you were trying chess + clock hehe.
I had better luck with "large" and "cat" which gave me "colossalot", as in "colossal ocelot", which is a real winner.
However, I don't want to dismiss the hard work that went into this tool, despite my criticisms. It's very, very cool.
Paper (just 2 pages): https://nips2018creativity.github.io/doc/entendrepreneur.pdf