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I've had several like "According to facts and standards" or "standards and standards" or "facts and facts".
This site is cromulent.
I feel embiggened after only a short time using it.
got 'superthinness'. uhhhh ok https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/superthin

and just a bunch of words, that are kinda existing (handgunner? honeycake? etc), but it's just 'making up a new definition for them'. if i were to guess, given that gpt is built, trained around existing concepts, it's having a hard time coming up with something outside of that, and just ends up making something that's close to existing things. could be neat - 'it's almost like the real thing', but it also fails to be "truly novel". it's kinda not being given freedom to be truly random either (like coming up with 'smash on a keyboard' words that are actual nonsense).

If it has been spoken, it is a word.
I think it maybe needs to have been spoken with the intent to communicate or express a somewhat specific thing.

Like, a couple seconds ago I vocalized the sounds “xzoubadoo”, but I didn’t attach any particular meaning to it, it was just an arbitrary collection of syllables, “spoken” to demonstrate a point, but without the intent that the sounds stand for anything.

I don’t think “xzoubadoo” is really a word. At least, not yet. I suppose one might (likely temporarily/in an ad-hoc way) assign it a meaning as a response to this comment, but I have not done so.

So the definition is a meaningless sound.

When one plays EAs The Sims games it's tempting to try to hear meaning in the sounds constantly emitted by the virtual folks but it's just xzoubadoo.

to become a word, it has to be overheard and learned from context by third parties
Well, yes, to put a finer point on it. I meant, if it has been spoken [in the context of a conversation and understood by more than a single person in said conversation], it is a word. I don't think it needs to be defined in a dictionary or agreed upon by a committee in order for it to become an official word. Even if you don't agree with it.

A dictionary is a good place for someone to confirm the meaning of a word, and in the context of a professional written piece- it's probably wise to stick to words that can be looked up in this manner. But, on the other hand, YOLO.

When you create a word using an existing word, e.g. house, it will define the word using the word itself.
megg - a chicken in which the flesh is pressed into fine slices

chowpaw - a small black-and-tan domestic cat with a small head and black back, found in the dark

chachunga - a drink like kool-aid or candy, consisting of hot sauce, milk, and a small amount of liquor

bunnet - a chain of rods having bunks for each arm

dynamocomp - a container with two handles containing a continuous rotating system of fluid which keeps a load in. One of these is heated by the power of the other and can be carried on a strap suspended above an aircraft's nose for assistance, usually during takeoff or landing

I got "microdosing" which I'm pretty sure is a word.

The definition was new though: "the injection of small amounts of a drug to a microdialysis unit"

I got "professor", so it seems like it can emit words that do exist.
I got "harmonize"!
I got “microprinter” which has a Wikipedia page.
I got "hobogeography"... that is not a word, but it should be, haha
This is a known issue called unhallucination.
i got "warsh" which is the spelling of how some old west virginia says "wash"
Those 15th century English writers just making up Latinate neologisms woulda loved this
I'm wrong enough as it is. I really don't need to train my brain on erroneous training data. ;)
It seems like it should be easy to check the word against a dictionary. We all seem to be getting existing words with novel definitions.
it just gave me clippy... OED will surely change its mind if it hasn't already given the pivotal role this term played during the early computer era.

> a person who talks quickly and impishly; an effeminate jerk "his talk really makes you look clippy"

also your sexist slur against the legendary microsoft word assistant is not welcome here!!!

j/k

fun webpage.

This word will soon be an OSS project/new startup/etc.

Maldemoor. Brainslow. Chirminous. Hempress (if this isn't a smoke shop already...)

All not bad.

Brainslow: A modern Anki-compatible spaced repetition learning app with customizable timescales.
disappointed by "glossoceratology". I got the definition "the study of particular groups of animals which are individually unique and have exceptional diversity" but clearly it should be the study of tongue horns.
It must be one of those not quite academic -ologies that was probably named by a non scientist author. Maybe they started out researching animals that had tongue horns, but when they didn't find any they branched out and never changed the name of the institute?

Either that, or it's a translation of some kind of German idiom that means "It doesn't belong there, something totally natural that is nonetheless out of place" or "It is so disturbing it makes it uncomfortable to talk about as if there was a horn on your tongue".

This would be perfect for the game Balderdash
Oh dear:

sickhies

drunk, noisy, or sexually active adults "some older kids got sickhies' and had to be nursed"