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1. Erwin+(OP)[view] [source] 2020-05-13 21:49:55
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+a5[view] [source] 2020-05-13 22:28:53
>>Erwin+(OP)
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+L5[view] [source] [discussion] 2020-05-13 22:33:05
>>downsh+a5
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

4. yreg+hl[view] [source] 2020-05-14 00:22:55
>>Erwin+(OP)
Here’s the quote of the 1961 e-reader prediction: https://i.imgur.com/e1x76Nz.jpg
5. dhosek+Pm[view] [source] 2020-05-14 00:32:10
>>Erwin+(OP)
I'm not sure that Shakespeare really invented those words. A lot of the first use citations in the Oxford English Dictionary tended to go for prominent writers in its first use citations.
6. gerdes+Go[view] [source] 2020-05-14 00:43:43
>>Erwin+(OP)
"Stanislaw Lem who invented more words than Shakespeare."

SL's inventiveness is beyond reproach but he lived in a time (died 2006) rather later than Mr (I have 50 spelings of my name) Shakesper. Lem spoke several languages and a cursory glance at your link seems to show a lot of drinks!

Shake a spear did invent a huge number of English words. Some of them were due to the rather random speling existent in the Elizabethan England of the 14th C. The rest were the result of a creative mind that needed to deploy ideas and concepts in ways that were not available at the time. The clever thing is that he created many words that seem so obvious in meaning - and are so obviously "English". He literally understood English to its core and was able to manipulate it effectively. Good skills that man.

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7. renewi+Dp[view] [source] 2020-05-14 00:51:29
>>Erwin+(OP)
Lem is such a witty writer and his short stories are so thoroughly enjoyable. He's very clever!

His work isn't like Terry Pratchett but I find that there is a commonality in their cleverness. Still can't get over Pratchett's 'ideon' (a fundamental particle that when it strikes the brain, creates an idea; hilarious!) or that weird story of Lem's where an abandoned traveler gene-chemical engineers a sapient civilization to build himself a ship so he can fly back.

8. malkia+Tw[view] [source] 2020-05-14 01:50:01
>>Erwin+(OP)
And we owe the word "robot" to Karel Čapek (AFAIK). "Rabota" - means work in Bulgarian, and I guess similar in many other slavic languages.
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9. klohto+B01[view] [source] [discussion] 2020-05-14 06:33:00
>>malkia+Tw
FYI, the robot and rabota are pretty close due to ‘robota’ meaning work in old Czech.
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10. goto11+Ko1[view] [source] [discussion] 2020-05-14 10:04:13
>>gerdes+Go
It is doubtful how many words were actually invented by Shakespeare, as opposed to a Shakespeare text just being the first recorded use of that word.
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11. severa+XR1[view] [source] [discussion] 2020-05-14 13:48:58
>>klohto+B01
this is exactly how it was invented.

Also - "robot" was not invented Karel Čapek but his brother Josef. Karel was looking for good word describing mechanical workers for his theatre play called RUR.

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12. malkia+xH2[view] [source] [discussion] 2020-05-14 17:35:20
>>severa+XR1
Didn't know that - Thanks!
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