Timeline for Syllabify English words - kind of
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| Jun 17, 2020 at 9:04 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Oct 4, 2016 at 7:49 | comment | added | seequ | @WallyWest I believe that's hard to turn into code. | |
| Oct 4, 2016 at 5:56 | comment | added | Eliseo D'Annunzio | An English teacher of mine from way back used the hand-under-chin technique. Place a hand half an inch under the chin as you speak, and each beat (touch of chin against hand) indicated a syllable. | |
| Aug 2, 2014 at 15:26 | vote | accept | seequ | ||
| Jul 23, 2014 at 9:46 | comment | added | seequ | @LưuVĩnhPhúc Knight and trash don't change with these rules. The other cases are known as exceptions. I don't want to include any more special cases. | |
| Jul 23, 2014 at 9:42 | comment | added | phuclv | How about some double (or more) consonant words like diphthong, knight, thrash, mathematics...? According to the 4th rule it'll be divided at the first consonant but I don't think dip-hthong, k-night, t-hrash, mat-he-ma-tics are reasonable solutions | |
| Jul 22, 2014 at 22:22 | comment | added | seequ | @Nexus We should, but I misworded it and after three answers, I don't feel comfortable changing it. | |
| Jul 22, 2014 at 22:16 | comment | added | Nexus | Back to the case of quicksilver, when we have more than just the ck between two vowels (cks) do we apply the ck rule? | |
| Jul 22, 2014 at 21:49 | answer | added | YenTheFirst | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jul 22, 2014 at 18:58 | comment | added | seequ | @DigitalTrauma They get prosessed normally, but rarely have two syllables. | |
| Jul 22, 2014 at 18:48 | comment | added | Digital Trauma |
Rule #1 deals with four letters words. What about words with less than four letters? e.g. lua
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| Jul 22, 2014 at 18:30 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackCodeGolf/status/491651603943129088 | ||
| Jul 22, 2014 at 16:54 | answer | added | Digital Trauma | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jul 22, 2014 at 16:42 | comment | added | Peter Taylor |
y is never two consonants, so I've taken the liberty of correcting that part of the spec. It's still dodgy for words like quicksilver, but it's not going to be perfect. There's one outstanding major problem, which is that when the same rule can be applied in more than one place you haven't given an importance tie-breaker. I think this question would have benefitted from some time in the sandbox.
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| Jul 22, 2014 at 16:42 | comment | added | seequ |
@PeterTaylor And thank you. In Finnish y is a vowel, so I forgot it for a moment.
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| Jul 22, 2014 at 16:40 | history | edited | Peter Taylor | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 22, 2014 at 16:33 | history | edited | seequ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 22, 2014 at 16:31 | comment | added | seequ | @PeterTaylor Ouch, you got a point there. Let's add a word to the specification. | |
| Jul 22, 2014 at 16:08 | comment | added | Peter Taylor |
I don't think you fully fixed the problem Jan pointed out. At present, the word hemlocks would split hemlock-s.
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| Jul 22, 2014 at 15:50 | answer | added | Nexus | timeline score: 8 | |
| Jul 22, 2014 at 14:33 | comment | added | seequ |
@DigitalTrauma y is not a vowel as in letters. I want to keep pronounciation out of this.
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| Jul 22, 2014 at 14:33 | comment | added | seequ | @DigitalTrauma I feel the more general case is to keep it as it is. | |
| Jul 22, 2014 at 14:33 | comment | added | Digital Trauma | What about 'y'? Sometimes effectively a vowel "happy", sometimes a consonant "yellow"? | |
| Jul 22, 2014 at 14:30 | comment | added | Digital Trauma | The first rule has many exceptions: pogo, yoga, mama... Worth fixing or just stick with it as it is? | |
| Jul 22, 2014 at 14:11 | history | edited | seequ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 22, 2014 at 13:47 | history | edited | seequ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 22, 2014 at 13:45 | comment | added | seequ |
@JanDvorak Wait... Fixing! Edit: Fixed. The x rule was not general enough.
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| Jul 22, 2014 at 13:43 | comment | added | John Dvorak | I mean, shouldn't rule #4 only split between syllables? | |
| Jul 22, 2014 at 13:42 | comment | added | seequ | @JanDvorak "When a word is divided, start again with the right half of the word.", followed by rule #6. | |
| Jul 22, 2014 at 13:40 | comment | added | John Dvorak |
Are you sure about x-e-non? Reference for rule #4?
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| Jul 22, 2014 at 13:27 | history | asked | seequ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |