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How do I determine if a random string sounds like English?
For a while I have wondered if it is possible to programmatically determine if a string of letters is pronounceable .
I consider a word pronounceable if it can be read/spoken...
Started by Jon Winstanley on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
It is up to whichever drunk bastard last amended the English language to decide://stackoverflow....
knife is supposed to be unpronounceable and it is pronounceable.
English has no phonetic spelling ...
Answer shows an algorithm.
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back - n. the part behind the front; ad. the other way from forward
bad - ad. wrong; acting against the law; not good
balance - v. to make two sides or forces equal
ball - n. something round
balloon - n. a device of strong, light material that rises...
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at for68):
A tool or weapon used to cut
know of the earth not covered by water; the ground... .
To touch with the mouth to show love or honor
knife - n.
Of or concerning people belonging to a large group because of their race, religion, language
kiss - v.
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On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:57:50 GMT, no name <invalid@invalid.com
When did it become common to start names with a capital letter?
When did it become common to start a sentence with a capital letter?
Thank you.
Started by no name on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at omgili):
On Mon, 1....
Capitalisation evolved into English.
ITYWF that capitals have been subtracted a time when it was generally agreed that
all nouns should be capitalised in English.
Id when did /all/ nouns cease having a capital
letter.
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On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:17:24 -0800 (PST), Richo <m.richardson61@gmail.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmMSilHDSAs&feature=channel_page
Excellent.
The written English language should be reformed.
Making our children learn reading and writing...
Started by Richo on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at omgili):
English is simultaneously....
Ingilt@yahoo.co.uk
Having chosen English as the preferred language in the EEC
(now officially 2009 23:37:49 -0500, j-rod <j-rod@nospam.net
You obviously do not know how the English language.
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I pretty much LOVE languages, and i thought it would be a great idea to have a giant thread.. where we can all learn different languages?
like, basic words and shit..
Rules
ALL Phrases and Words must be phonetic and in the languages written form
Example...
Started by Mithaearon on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at grungeforum):
Is such a ugly language
“The language of love letters is the same as suicide notes.” Courtney Love
“Being letters..
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On Sun, 30 Aug 2009 10:41:32 +0100, Keitht <KeithT
There seems to be some francophobes around who are unable to understand
that the English language is made up of words from lots of forriners.
What would they substitute 'peloton' with (has ...
Started by Keitht on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at omgili):
Tcnw71@blackhole.do-not-spam.me.uk
The above is Indian, adopted into the English Language, though Nugent 16:57:16 +0100,
JNugent <JN@noparticularplacetogo.com
The English language +0100, JNugent
<JN....
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On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 11:38:16 -0800, Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid
We have a revenge spiral going on in Israel. The latest round was
Israelis killing 200 Palestinians in Gaza to "defend themselves".
This is butchery of the English...
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at omgili):
“The Jews should have offered
themselves to the butcher’s knife.
Later, when the extent as
they did in Warsaw and Treblinka .
An open letter to the British people, urging them to surrender
to the Nazis.
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Our post PLANNED Planned Euthanasia for the Disabled in Greece? with the link https://217.72.179.7/members/www.bilderberg.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=5076 has been moved by the Administrators for some unknown reasons in the section Global Totalitarian ...
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at apc):
Http://www.gt.se/ViewDoc.jsp?Ref=PR359 (2010)&Language....
For medical re-examination by unsigned letters , stories of thousands of people with serious letters sent from the Insurance Funds , we have already seen these stories in Sweden .
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I am the last person to claim my grammar is perfect, far from it.
But I've noticed a trend especially on hfboards where a lot of posters write "should of","would of", etc. instead of "should have" and "would have".
I know there are more of these kind ...
Started by MrAlfie on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at hockeysfuture):
Silent letters, like in "debt", "knife" or "pneumothorax"?
English is a very funny language we use silent letters, like in "debt", "knife" or "pneumothorax"?
English is a very funny language not....
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Reading the Bible is good! I would argue it's actually a functional necessity. Misinterpreting the Bible is bad, and I would argue, not a functional necessity.
So let's review: reading = good; misinterpreting = bad.
How do we avoid misinterpreting Scripture...
Started by Ongurth on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at ccgaming):
The Bible....
Was far more capable to translate the Bible from language to language perfectly than we are to translate a language that is now ancient which we are not experts in to our modern one and therefore put hand to slay his son.
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