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1. bisRep+av1[view] [source] 2020-05-14 05:37:47
>>turtle+(OP)
Great stuff. Found a real word:

  refactoring

  the systematic and systematic reworking of a piece of text to reduce unnecessary redundancies
Interesting that the made-up definition is pretty much the real one.

https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/refactoring/eyJ3IjogI...

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2. turtle+QG1[view] [source] 2020-05-14 07:22:45
>>bisRep+av1
Got a few comments about that one and a few others! I just updated the existing word blacklist and re-deployed.
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3. tombh+IS1[view] [source] 2020-05-14 09:02:28
>>turtle+QG1
Oh, I'm surprised the "blacklist" isn't just the standard English dictionary. I'm sure I'm just being naive though. Why not just blacklist any word that already exists in English?
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4. turtle+yT1[view] [source] 2020-05-14 09:09:34
>>tombh+IS1
There are some subtleties (e.g. hyphens, derived forms, bigrams, etc.) but the biggest problem is that most English dictionaries don't have entries for every scientific word / piece of internet slang. I ended up tokenizing Wikipedia for a blacklist and still missed a lot :(
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5. mathew+Ui2[view] [source] 2020-05-14 12:50:55
>>turtle+yT1
> I ended up tokenizing Wikipedia for a blacklist and still missed a lot :(

That sounds like an impressive project in itself :)

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6. pbhjpb+Hv2[view] [source] 2020-05-14 14:02:27
>>mathew+Ui2
Words not on Wikipedia, found on other sources, listed by frequency (perhaps with a date-weighting of the source document to reduce rating of older sources), would be an interesting way to find holes in Wikipedia's coverage.
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7. patric+Yx2[view] [source] 2020-05-14 14:13:27
>>pbhjpb+Hv2
Someone should make a Wikipedia page of that list. Oh, wait.
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8. pbhjpb+357[view] [source] 2020-05-15 20:45:37
>>patric+Yx2
I like how you had information, made a sarcastic comment about it, but didn't share the actual information ... just in case your comment might prove helpful ...
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9. roryok+1r7[view] [source] 2020-05-15 23:05:09
>>pbhjpb+357
Are you saying the URL of that Wikipedia page is “actual information” that patrickthebold failed to share?

I think that page doesn’t exist. patrickthebold wasn’t sarcastically mocking people who were too lazy to look up that page. He was just making the point that as soon as a hypothetical list like that was uploaded to Wikipedia, it should be deleted, since those words would then be words found on Wikipedia.

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