On 11/15/2016 05:58 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Tue, 2016-11-15 at 17:18 -0500, Przemek Klosowski wrote:
As an alternative, I wrote a program that takes the distribution of
trigrams from an English dictionary, and statistically generates a
Markov chain of such overlapping trigrams that look almost entirely
unlike English words but often are strangely pronounceable, for instance:
umirckbysag mpspiarefor doptinenchc lymdeotmicn gclyowdhoki
I, er, don't find any of those naturally pronounceable at all.
Well, I see your point, but we're competing here with qljkvwqrx,
lkdsfhkrw, or ad5cb9c940. Remember that the point is to come up with
something that could be easily remembered. I would argue that they're
not much worse than
Acthrel Iprivask Strensiq Eltrombopag Ondansetron VinCRIStine Arixtra
Arzerra Ertaczo
which are actually from a list of registered drug names that the doctors
are supposed to remember. Maybe someone could come up with a suggestion
for a better algo---adding just few vowels would fix them up
significantly:
umirckobysag mopsopiarefor doptinenchoc lymdeotemicyn goclywodhoki
BTW, when I looked at the list of drug names I was impressed with the
linguistic inventiveness of whoever comes up with this stuff; most of
them not only could plausibly be pronounced, but also sounded vaguely
'medical'.
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