Show HN: Duplicate Word Finder

The competitors are free to protest and try to gaslight you into believing you made a mistake. Part of the fun is beingable to give a good explanation as to why the protest is wrong. The game is a friendly social one, at least the one in Swedish is done like that.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A5_minuten

That would ruin the entire thing.

Speaking on a subject probably makes it more complex, but reading your description I had a sudden memory of Timmy Mallett's word-association game, from the UK back in the day.

The aim there is to reply spontaneously to random words, without hesitation and repetition. If you fail you get hit on the head by a foam-mallet.

Someone commented something similar on reddit a while ago, and it is a very good argument to be honest. Still, you might find some situations where the tool might be useful and it's already deployed, so people can use it if they want

Yep, it's actually what we were taught in high school.

Still, sometimes recognizing duplicate words points out some bad/imprecise wording where you're repeating yourself and may not like that.

I find myself using the "edit" feature on comments online a decent amount to catch/add things I only found when reading it back in complete form.

ChatGPT: "Are any of these sentences repetition of each other"

Most educational literature from the US are rife with sentences that might not be verbatim repetition but most certainly say the same with a different word soup.

It doesn't even find inflections, such as plural/singular. But as a writing tool, it can only lead to contrived constructions that seem to be the realm of sports journalists: "The multiple medal winner" ... "Last year's 500 meter champion" ... "The Londoner" ... "The former law student" ... when referring to one and the same person during a race.

I do like that it lists them on the side, and allows you to remove them.

Uncritical duplicate removal, yes. But I edit a lot of work and duplicated words are one of the things that I see time and gain, really dragging writing down. IMO, removing duplicates is one of the cheapest wins, a very easy way of making improvements so long as you do it at all reasonably.

I'm sure you've thought about every single possible situation to conclude your insightful comment.

Otherwise...

There is no use for your comment.

Perhaps a better model might be to look at word frequency analysis, and highlight words that are used substantially more frequently than in typical English text.

Seems reasonable that those types of words are eliminated for the purpose of the tool. Either by having a letter limit or by whitelisting them. Of course there will be duplicates of "the" and "and".

You might have to adjust the minimal word length to 3.

you can use the first slider on the toolbar to set the minimum word length, default is 4 (or the third button on the toolbar if you're on phone or smaller screens)

Tried “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo” and it highlighted every word. Tried “James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher” and it had no issues with it.

the initial text on the site is the instructions. I can agree it's somewhat a questionable design, but I wanted to make sure that the instructions are there for newcomers and easy to clear for the regular users. So any action on the editor will clear the instructions, but the text you type is safe.

was it a long text?