[HN Gopher] Every possible pun of the form 'You put the X in Y'
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Every possible pun of the form 'You put the X in Y'
Author : westcort
Score : 61 points
Date : 2020-11-06 19:54 UTC (3 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.locserendipity.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.locserendipity.com)
| Jugurtha wrote:
| I read the site as loserendipity.com and thought it was a nice
| pun.
| patrickthebold wrote:
| I'll add my favorite:
|
| You put the 'b' in subtle.
| _Microft wrote:
| > YOU PUT THE SPORT IN TRANSPORTING.
|
| This is a nice one.
| asdfman123 wrote:
| Oh lordy, I've got a thing to say about your Javascript.
|
| You could keep the word pairs server side and retrieve them as
| the page is accessed... or at the very least if you're going to
| store all your data in a static file you could store them in an
| array to save space, instead of the whole links. You could get
| real fancy and make some kind of soundex map thing.
|
| Question: did you just break each word into syllables, and find
| soundex matches?
|
| No worries, though, I like the compulsive punning. I just like
| talking about things on the internet.
| Xevi wrote:
| What the...
|
| Is that a function with a 560000+ lines long comment inside of
| it, that gets turned into a string, then sliced, and split on
| newlines, then assigned to a global variable that gets used in
| another global function?
|
| It took a minute just to open the source code in my browser.
| Chrome used 5.2GB of RAM while viewing the source code, just
| for that tab.
| umvi wrote:
| Yeah! Just goes to show you can make a cool thing that is
| really quick and dirty under the hood.
|
| You could make this page load instantly by making the random
| selection happen in the backend instead of in the browser,
| but then I guess it would no longer just be a static file.
|
| You could also just have a compact array of pairs and then
| generate the sentences in the browser instead of having half
| a million pre-generated strings.
| kardos wrote:
| Yep Chromium did the same for me. Firefox did not implode
| quite so badly.
| westcort wrote:
| I just did string matching (on about 7.6 billion items
| 133000^2) and matched the pronunciation portion. It's a fun
| lark.
| tasty_freeze wrote:
| My favorite lexical pun, but not auditory, is "You put the
| laughter into slaughter".
| [deleted]
| jayd16 wrote:
| >YOU PUT THE BITCH IN OBITUARY.
|
| Welp, I have to say it's a resounding success.
| doodlebugging wrote:
| YOU PUT THE I IN TEAM
|
| I probably screwed that up. Oops, I just made that up.
| wnissen wrote:
| This reminds me of the time I needed to generate some names for
| testing, and I simply combined the Social Security list of most
| common first and last names at random. It turns out that the vast
| majority of possible name combinations are terrible. Not quite
| "Sleve McDichael" from the notorious Super Famicon game, but
| close.
|
| Like this, I could read through a whole page of names before
| finding one that scans. Bennett Takeshita, e.g., is effectively
| unpronounceable.
|
| https://www.avclub.com/check-out-these-wonderful-american-na...
| westcort wrote:
| I like this idea!
| AnthonyMouse wrote:
| You put the RUSTED in DISTRUSTED.
|
| You put the PYHRRIC in EMPIRICALLY.
|
| You put the ALLAH in CLIMATOLOGIST.
|
| You put the ICING in ENTICING.
|
| You put the SCENT in DISINCENTIVE.
|
| It includes names though, which are almost never interesting:
|
| You put the REECE in RECENTLY.
| BernardTatin wrote:
| Did you put the French in some fries?
| rflrob wrote:
| I noticed there's a few cases where a th sound puns with a t
| sound. For example, you put the OUGHT in ROTHMEYER. Intentional
| due to loose matching? Uncertainty in pronunciations? Or is this
| a bug where the th phoneme is represented as the digraph th?
| westcort wrote:
| I just did an index of match, so the t from th could have
| matched. It was quick and dirty, but it's just for fun, so
| please forgive those
| peterburkimsher wrote:
| I like it! I started making a similar kind of page before as
| a brainstorming challenge: "noun is like a noun".
|
| 2 people could sit in front of the screen, and the first
| person to guess how the nouns are similar would win the
| point.
|
| https://github.com/peterburk/peterburk.github.io/tree/master.
| ..
|
| I'd also like to make a pun dictionary of similar-sounding
| words in English & Chinese, using the data I already gathered
| for Pingtype.
| voisin wrote:
| It would be neat to let people vote up and down to give some
| social value component.
| westcort wrote:
| Good idea!
| freetime2 wrote:
| A couple of these actually made me laugh out loud. Nice job!
| westcort wrote:
| Thanks! It makes my day that this could make someone laugh!
| gok wrote:
| Some de-stemming would make these work a lot better:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stemming
| westcort wrote:
| Definitely something I could do with a quick regex. Great idea!
| [deleted]
| WClayFerguson wrote:
| I had calculated the square of the number of words in the
| dictionary and was disappointed to see that some were missing on
| the site.
| westcort wrote:
| Just used CMUDICT 0.7 which had 133000 or so entries, so there
| could be others if you used the OED. I did learn a lot of words
| from this though
| mabbo wrote:
| I feel that to really make this work you would need to filter
| words with common origins. Like, if one word appears in the
| dictionary definition of the other word, they likely aren't going
| to be funny.
|
| Examples:
|
| YOU PUT THE REFINE IN REFINERY.
|
| YOU PUT THE DETECT IN DETECTS.
|
| YOU PUT THE POLYTECHNOLOGY IN POLYTECHNOLOGIES.
|
| But words with no commonality at all and a good rhyme are
| brilliant.
|
| YOU PUT THE RUDENESS IN SHREWDNESS.
| WilTimSon wrote:
| There are also some that are just nonsensical but when you read
| a dozen of these in a row, they feel actually kind of funny.
| Just tunes your brain to a different wavelength.
| default-kramer wrote:
| Hmm, rhymes don't really do it for me. I might even filter out
| rhymes if I built this. I've heard humans use this format often
| enough, and I don't think I've ever heard someone use a rhyme.
| It's just too easy. Putting "the cologne in colonialism" is
| significantly better.
| cwkoss wrote:
| Yeah, I think the currently allows 1-phoneme differences. I
| think it would be better if it only allowed 2-3+ phoneme
| differences when at the end of the word. -s -ies -y arent
| interesting suffixes.
| tyingq wrote:
| I'd have missed "YOU PUT THE ARRAY IN ARRAYS", which felt apt.
| Asraelite wrote:
| What pronunciation dictionary did you use?
|
| I've been looking for a good one that 1. includes variant
| pronunciations, and 2. distinguishes all phonemes, e.g. considers
| Rosa's and roses distinct. So far I haven't found any that
| fulfill these criteria.
| westcort wrote:
| I used CMUDICT v0.7
| djbeadle wrote:
| I love it, but I don't know a lot of these words!
|
| If the author is reading I think a nice small improvement would
| be to prefix the Google search with "define" (as in: "define
| ${word}") to invoke Google's dictionary function.
| westcort wrote:
| Great idea! I was not aware if that!
| arthurjj wrote:
| Looks pretty great. If someone is looking to do something similar
| the NLTK has a library with mappings to the pronunciation or you
| can use soundex. I used the NLTK library for answering "How many
| rhymes are there in English"[1] but the phonemes were in a
| different format than IPA.
|
| I don't know if there is something similar to the NLTK library
| with the mappings but for IPA
|
| [1] https://medium.com/@the_ajohnston/how-many-rhymes-are-
| there-...
| lopmotr wrote:
| Saw one that makes sense "You put the insel in tinseltown".
| smnrchrds wrote:
| Is there a way to search in the list? I want to see if it has
| caught "put chalk in chocolate" (typically used regarding to
| Hershey's).
| westcort wrote:
| View source and you can see all of them
| smnrchrds wrote:
| Thanks. I see that it does include it.
| daotoad wrote:
| I got YOU PUT THE SWAYZE IN SWAYZE.
|
| There really needs to be a filter to block these kinds of
| results.
|
| I wish the word links would let me navigate the set of puns
| rather than going to google. X links should let me see all the
| combos that have the same word in the X position. Y links should
| do the same thing, mutatis mutandis.
| klodolph wrote:
| I'm going to stick with my favorites.
|
| Put the _romance_ in _necromancer_ and
|
| Put the _fun_ in _dysfunctional._
| westcort wrote:
| Great!
| tobyhinloopen wrote:
| These are the best
| Veen wrote:
| Amusing, although you should remove examples where Y is just the
| plural of X. I got "You put the rooftop in rooftops."
| mFixman wrote:
| Even worse, "you put the climatologists in climatologist".
|
| Still, I love when small people silly personal projects get
| promoted in HN. We should have more of these.
| techbio wrote:
| Good start--now if you can only make them funny.
| triceratops wrote:
| Add a thumbs-up/down button, train a neural net. Easy peasy.
| asdfman123 wrote:
| As a compulsive punner I object to the expectation they're
| supposed to be funny.
|
| I pun for mental stimulation, and to make everyone around me
| cringe.
| twiceaday wrote:
| Would be good to prioritize popular words, if that data is out
| there.
| jtokoph wrote:
| "YOU PUT THE {BRACE IN {OPEN-BRACE" takes the cake
| MagnumPIG wrote:
| "You put the Dinosaur in Dinosaurs"
|
| Get outta here!
| saghm wrote:
| "YOU PUT THE RHEAULT IN CROSSNO"
|
| "YOU PUT THE OUGHT IN REAUTHORIZE"
|
| I'm not positive what's going on here, but it seems like it's
| incorrectly detecting syllable divisions? If it thinks that the
| division is between "o" and "s" in the first and between "t" and
| "h" in the second, those results would make sense. I don't think
| anyone actually pronounces "reauthorize" like "warthog",
| though...
| CamelCaseName wrote:
| Some of these are a bit suspect...
|
| > YOU PUT THE OOOHS IN DEPOSE
| forddavis wrote:
| Just encountered > YOU PUT THE )PARENS IN (BEGIN-PARENS.
| Although arguably more of a feature than a bug
| SamBam wrote:
| Yeah, it doesn't look like it's just string matching.
| YOU PUT THE MINNER IN PETROMINERALS. YOU PUT THE GUINN
| IN GINSU. YOU PUT THE READER IN TREDER.
|
| Seems like doing it "wrong" like this would actually be harder?
| I'm a bit confused.
| triceratops wrote:
| They seem to be accent dependent.
| commandlinefan wrote:
| Third result:
|
| > YOU PUT THE WHICHEVER IN WHICHEVER.
| koliber wrote:
| Technically correct, which is the best kind of correct.
| [deleted]
| kthejoker2 wrote:
| 6 winners among a sea of .. not .. winners.
|
| You put the SCENES in Francine's.
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| You put the DORIS in Maquiladoras.
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| You put the UNDER in underwriting.
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| You put the SOMETHING in Twentysomethings.
|
| And the two actual puns:
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| You put the RACY in Gracie.
|
| You put the BROAD in Broadway.
| abakker wrote:
| You put the KILLED in unskilled
| tomcatfish wrote:
| Wow, some of these are really unique and would be EASILY missed
| by simpler string matching. I had to read some out-loud to
| understand
|
| Faves:
|
| > YOU PUT THE OUGHT IN WATERCOLORS.
|
| > YOU PUT THE REITAN IN FRIGHTENED.
|
| > YOU PUT THE EFFICIENTLY IN INEFFICIENTLY . > YOU PUT THE BORED
| IN DEBORD.
|
| > YOU PUT THE FARAH IN PHEROMONES. (!!?)
| matsemann wrote:
| > YOU PUT THE DICKS IN DICTIONARIES
|
| This is great! Just wish it was possible to filter out uncommon
| words. I have no idea what half of them means or how they're
| supposed to be pronounced (non-native).
| duskwuff wrote:
| > > YOU PUT THE FARAH IN PHEROMONES. (!!?)
|
| "Farah" and "phero-" are both pronounced 'fer@ ("fair-ruh").
| nullsense wrote:
| YOU PUT THE CON IN CONGRESS.
|
| Ooooh. Topical.
|
| Edit: also YOU PUT THE ERICA IN AMERICA. That's adorable.
| ddingus wrote:
| Did you include:
|
| "You put the foo in bar?"
|
| Fun lark, I laughed at some. Wondered at some others.
| lqet wrote:
| > YOU PUT THE EXACT IN INEXACT.
| jayd16 wrote:
| This reminds me of precision vs accuracy.
| triceratops wrote:
| Can't wait to use that one someday.
| westcort wrote:
| Good one!
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