Homonym Replacer
May 15
Posted: under Technology.
I’m finally done! Sort of. I’d actually like to make it do other stupid stuff as well, but I’ll save that for later. This puppy is a homonym replacer. More specifically, it’s a homophone replacer. Homonyms are words that sound the same that have different meanings. This would include words like read that are spelled the same but whose meaning will change depending on the context in which it is used. It wouldn’t do much good to replace those with themselves…..so here we replace homophones, which are words that sound the same and are spelled differently. This includes sets like there, their, and they’re.
People screw these words up all the time. Some people just don’t know better, but when our mind is racing and we’re writing something down, it’s easy to think one thing and end up writing another. Ever read back over what you wrote and think “What the hell was I thinking?” I tend to always pick up the there’s and your’s and to’s when I’m reading and it always annoys the hell out of me for some reason. So I figured, why not create something to make one’s writing look even more stupid? The basic ones that everyone always gets wrong are included, but there are also a lot in there that you probably wouldn’t even notice after they’d been changed. Some are so subtle that it looks more like a misspelling then the wrong word being used. It’ll match over 700 words just now.
It can also be set to only look at (approximately) a certain percentage of the words to see if it can find a homophone. This way, you can set it low and just dumb something up a little (a “realisitic” amount if you will) if you want.
I suppose if you always get these words wrong then this could actually help you clean up your act…
