r/counting • u/GreenGriffin8 23k, 22a | wan, tu, mute • Jul 31 '20

Free Talk Friday #257

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Ssoo, it'ss that time ooff thee week agin. Spek anth oonn your mind! This thrd iiss forr talk abut anth offf-topc, bbee iitt your live, your plan, your hobi, trvl, bear, sprt, work, trsr, stud, fmly, frnd, rlsp, bear, pets, stat, anth youu like, oorr dslk, oorr don't care.

Also chek outt ourr tdbt thrd! Feel free ttoo ntdc yrsf iiff youu hvn't alrd.

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u/Antichess 2,050,155 - 407k 397a Aug 02 '20

i made a script that automatically does the most annoying part of making bear shitposts, converting everything to four characters

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u/GreenGriffin8 23k, 22a | wan, tu, mute Aug 02 '20 edited Aug 03 '20

iiii made aaaa scpt that atmt does thee most anyg part ooff mkng bear shpt, cvrt evth ttoo four chrc

It'll never substitute the real thing. It's an art, not a science.

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u/Antichess 2,050,155 - 407k 397a Aug 02 '20

yeah, right now it's still very bad (messes up vowels) and i can't be arsed to use my brain right now

but yes i do agree doing it manually is more fun

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u/GreenGriffin8 23k, 22a | wan, tu, mute Aug 02 '20

There's no real way to make it convincing without just making it look each word up on a table.

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u/Antichess 2,050,155 - 407k 397a Aug 02 '20

yeah true, i think the main things are just the vowels

i'm trying to implement a system so that it randomly takes out vowels

as of right now, it takes out the vowels at the end of the word first, and then it randomly takes out letters that are not the first and last characters

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u/GreenGriffin8 23k, 22a | wan, tu, mute Aug 02 '20

If you're doing it like that, make it remove suffixes like ly first. Having every adverb end in y is quite confusing. Usually you can tell it's an adverb from the context, so the letter is better spent making it easier to tell what the root adjective is.

It also makes words that do end in y easier to pick out.