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1. Erwin+JA[view] [source] 2020-05-13 21:49:55
>>turtle+(OP)
Very impressive. It was reminiscent of the Polish sci-fi writer, Stanislaw Lem who invented more words than Shakespeare. That made for some tricky translations. Here's a list of new words in just one of the books alone:

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/User:Hal_Bregg_II/Neologisms_...

This 1961 book predicted what Lem calls "opton", an electronic book reader with only one page between the covers (Kindle Opton special for Lem's 100 year anniversary next year would be nice!)

I wonder if someone has created sci-fi short stories with that data set yet.

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2. downsh+TF[view] [source] 2020-05-13 22:28:53
>>Erwin+JA
It would be neat to do this with different dictionary training sets such as a legal dictionary or biology glossary. I wonder if it could generate useful creative ideas in the mind of a professional.

Or, if feeling contentious, other wordspaces https://gender.wikia.org/wiki/Category:Gender_Identities

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3. turtle+uG[view] [source] 2020-05-13 22:33:05
>>downsh+TF
I have some starter code for urban dictionary here if you want to give it a go: https://github.com/turtlesoupy/this-word-does-not-exist/blob...

The early results were that it works, but noisier datasets are tough. The urban dictionary corpus also has a ton of racist definitions

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