https://github.com/eseyffarth/deutsch_falsch

Twitterbot that generates orthographically plausible German words with semantically plausible English explanations.
https://github.com/eseyffarth/deutsch_falsch

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Twitterbot that generates orthographically plausible German words with semantically plausible English explanations.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/eseyffarth/deutsch_falsch
• Owner: eseyffarth
• Created: 2015-10-18T14:45:34.000Z (over 8 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2015-10-19T18:22:25.000Z (over 8 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-03-03T10:38:59.407Z (4 months ago)
• Language: Python
• Size: 199 KB
• Stars: 14
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# Deutsch_Falsch

Twitterbot that generates orthographically plausible German words with semantically plausible English definitions. See [https://twitter.com/Deutsch_Falsch] (https://twitter.com/Deutsch_Falsch) for sample output.

## How it works

The German words are generated using a trigram model that was trained on actual German nouns. The files `1.txt`, `2.txt` and `3.txt` contain all unigrams, bigrams and trigrams from my noun list with their frequency. The new words are randomly generated so that they have the same character and n-gram distribution as the actual German words.

The English definitions are taken from Wordnik definitions that are collected randomly by looking up English nouns from a word list.

## Why I made it

German is a strange language. I'm currently focusing on making twitterbots that have something to do with German. At the same time, I wanted to do a project that people who don't speak German can still appreciate. That's why the language of the tweets is English while their topic is the German language.

Also, I wanted to ridicule the "There must be a German word for `_______` " meme.

## Apologies

I'm sorry my bot teaches you wrong German words. Many tweets of the bot are actually being retweeted by "Long German Words" accounts. I hope nobody actually believes what they read here! If you have any specific complaints, you can reach me via GitHub or twitter.