The tool is here for the laughs, but the ideas underneath it are worth a few minutes too: where parody ends and satire begins, how a machine can change the tone of a sentence without touching its meaning, and which old rhetorical tricks make a speech sound ten feet tall. A few short reads below.
People swap the two words constantly, but they do different jobs. Sorting them out also explains why this style of comedy gets the protection it does. Plain English, no theory degree required.
Read →How does a model keep what you said while flipping how it sounds? A look at the idea behind it and the language models doing the heavy lifting, minus the jargon.
Read →Superlatives, repetition, a villain, and the one-word kicker. The exact devices that puff a sentence up to enormous size, and why they lodge in your head whether you want them to or not.
Read →Past the obvious first try: roasts, group-chat chaos, a writing warm-up, a party game, and a few uses you probably haven't tried for turning plain text TREMENDOUS.
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