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Unparalleled Misalignments by ChadNauseam

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    saagarjha
    Posted May 5, 2025 at 6:36 am

    I have to admit some of these took a moment to register.

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    investa
    Posted May 5, 2025 at 7:17 am

    Hypothesis = Understatement makes sense, right?

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    PeterStuer
    Posted May 5, 2025 at 7:49 am

    This is great, had quite a few chuckles.

    You could take it one step further and merge in Cockney Slang as an extra stage.

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    jl6
    Posted May 5, 2025 at 8:14 am

    Hacker News / Tweaker Buzz?

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    chabska
    Posted May 5, 2025 at 8:54 am

    That's a very loose definition of "synonyms" . Most are like "conceptually adjacent".

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    roenxi
    Posted May 5, 2025 at 9:15 am

    Some poet must have had a lot of fun with these slipping things past the censors. It'd be in the same league as the underhanded C contest – what is the most innocent short text that can be written while slipping in some subtle but likely rather dirty double meaning in.

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    krisoft
    Posted May 5, 2025 at 11:21 am

    Some of these are very cool and fits their definition exactly. But some others are very forced. Who would think that “fashion” and “taylor” are synonyms? And they are both further synonyms of “fix”? Or in the “Cold Fusion // Cool Cat” pair how would “fusion” be a synonym of “cat”?

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    ben_w
    Posted May 5, 2025 at 12:04 pm

    Ah, the difficulty of learning a second language as an adult.

    Reminds me of the ways that my mediocre grasp of the German language still haunts me => Resurrects myself out of specific tracks in which my half-hearted clutch on the Alsatian tongue still plagues me.

    Last year I inadvertently asked to borrow a fork-lift truck when I meant stapler. Still, at least my pronunciation is no longer Crabtree from 'Allo 'Allo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYNXMWRdCx0

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    keeganpoppen
    Posted May 5, 2025 at 1:40 pm

    this is absolutely genius

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    gwern
    Posted May 5, 2025 at 1:49 pm

    An interesting ML exercise (possible class project!) would be to try to automate this. A bigram corpus combined with word embeddings and a NSFW text classifier, maybe? Your usual word embedding might not work because the point is the multiple meanings, so maybe the twist would be that you need a polysemous word embedding with multiple vectors or something like that, so it's not just an off-the-shelf word2vec…

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    flufluflufluffy
    Posted May 5, 2025 at 2:33 pm

    Underdog/subwoofer is my favorite. A lesser known rapper needs to make a bar out of that xD

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