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Phonetic Matching

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77 points raybb | 4 comments | 18 Nov 24 03:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.938s | source
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ajuc ◴[18 Nov 24 14:16 UTC] No.42172452[source]▶
This is one of these cases where inheriting hacked-together piece of crap (English spelling) makes a lot of additional work higher up.

Another example is poetry. A regex can find rhymes in Polish. Same postfix == it rhymes.

In English it's a feat of engineering.

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wavemode ◴[18 Nov 24 15:19 UTC] No.42173123[source]▶
It's really just a feat of data collection (e.g. rhymezone.com). You just compile all English words and record which ones rhyme with which.

(Yeah it's labor-intensive, but probably not moreso than, say, writing a dictionary.)

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1. williamdclt ◴[18 Nov 24 15:39 UTC] No.42173377[source]▶
> You just compile all English words and record which ones rhyme with which

I suppose, if we ignore accents and heteronyms... both of which English is famous for, unfortunately!

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2. nyrikki ◴[18 Nov 24 19:15 UTC] No.42175840[source]▶
Shakespeare in RP loses most of the raunchy jokes as an example of the above.

My highschool English teacher was horrified when she figured out why us boys were laughing when reading her copy of the first folio, our hick accent ment we were getting some of the jokes she didn't even notice.

Theme rhyming with sixteen in the Cranberry's song Zombie is another.

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3. rhdunn ◴[18 Nov 24 23:46 UTC] No.42178544[source]▶
There was an effort to revive the Shakespearean pronunciation by David Crystal. You can see YouTube videos of David and his son Ben talking about it and reciting parts of Shakespeare to highlight the jokes and word play.
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