Show HN: API to add bad words to English texts

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Some tech text becomes very amusing: http://goo.gl/FzVBBv

I'd check into the a/an issue (http://i.imgur.com/ZT7Nf57.png), at least for the default/example phrase. Pretty funny though!

It's a neat tool but I wish it could better parse paragraphs and commas. I also had a few responses with the same curse words three or four times in a block of text making it a fucking boring read.

Yep, our dictionaries for adjectives, adverbs and nouns are tiny at the moment

Pretty neat. From solely using that the prepopulated example input, my main gripe would be that it doesn't get a/an correct in the "cursed up" version of the sentence.

Funny we didn't notice that!

Yes, that's true. And that's a fairly poorly written example.

this comes nowhere-the-fuck near cursing as dynamically as i can. ;)

Gives me an idea for a new kind of Turing test ...

I was thinking it would be more like readability, but instead of reformatting the html, inserting curse words. How much more fun would cnn.com be?! But a good start!

This reminds me of the old dialectizer that would rewrite web pages in specific dialects.

Interesting, which libraries did you use?

I assume you meant: "Interesting, which libraries did you use asshole"

http://goo.gl/NBPMm9

Natural Language Toolkit (http://www.nltk.org/) for Python.

The initial code for the "insulter.py", the core, was no more than 150 lines. We'll probably make our repository public at some point so you can check it out.

Are the thumbs up/down used to train the system? Looking forward to the code

Yes. In a very primitive way, at the moment, just updating the weights for adjectives

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