The New Babelfish?
Jul. 6th, 2006 03:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elwenFrom the book 55 Ways to Have Fun With Google comes the Synonym Storyteller. Apparently if you put a tilde in front of words in a Google search, it'll search with synonyms of that word, too. Or something. Hey, at least I know how to use Google calculator and unit conversions. (Oh how many times that unit converter has saved me at Tech...)
But the point was the synonyms. So now you can paste bits of text into the storyteller, and see random words replaced by inappropriate "synonyms". It's like Babelfish without ever having to leave the English language! (Though a bit harder to copy-paste if you want to preserve the bold formatting of the replaced words.)
Some other amusing substitutions include "park sheet music" for "placing [go] pieces", "thinner travel" for "thin air", and "javascript" for "window". There are some weird ones, though. I always get some variation of "get for sale" for "get used", which I guess is logical enough. But, "special education" for "idea"? And what's with "people" always becoming "women"? I also have no clue what "beena" means, nor "we-re", but I get those a lot, too. Maybe it has something to do with the storyteller script and not Google itself.
But the point was the synonyms. So now you can paste bits of text into the storyteller, and see random words replaced by inappropriate "synonyms". It's like Babelfish without ever having to leave the English language! (Though a bit harder to copy-paste if you want to preserve the bold formatting of the replaced words.)
But his human wouldn't cooperate. His scale was off, all of his movements were leaden, and his response performance must having beena on the weather scaling of watching turf plant. Worst of all, he had to getting for sale to a latest weapon."Turf plant" is the best synonym for "grass grow" ever. XD
Some other amusing substitutions include "park sheet music" for "placing [go] pieces", "thinner travel" for "thin air", and "javascript" for "window". There are some weird ones, though. I always get some variation of "get for sale" for "get used", which I guess is logical enough. But, "special education" for "idea"? And what's with "people" always becoming "women"? I also have no clue what "beena" means, nor "we-re", but I get those a lot, too. Maybe it has something to do with the storyteller script and not Google itself.
