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'.
