Re:Deep Learning ‘ahem’ detector
by eth0up on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @09:35PM
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<peeve>I hope this evolves to eventually become capable of removing "like"s, and maybe "uhm"s too, but certainly "like"s. I would willfully reside in the throat of a titanic bloviating German with influenza before listening to that haggard word uttered in every instance where punctuation or thoughtfulness ought have precedence. "Ahem" I can tolerate, even "uhm" and "you know"; but not all sentences require an analogy.</peeve>
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For those apparently disturbed [1] by some attribute of the above, please see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guttural - note that the German language is, by some[2], considered guttural. Happens to be among my favorites too. "Ahem", being a guttural sound, I jovially compared to a hypothetically enlarged and garrulous German with influenza (for purposes of exaggeration), which one might fairly imagine sounding slightly more pharyngeal than usual - which I must add that I would truly not find offensive. As for any perceived assault on the ubiquitous abuse of the word "like", if there is anything I can add to exacerbate it, I'd be delighted to oblige.
1. Euphemism for forbidden reference regarding votes
2. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/03/german-harsh-langua... - A little witzelsucht for your aphonogelia.