Humanize: my first open source package, mostly a rewrite

Re:Humanize: my first open source package, mostly a rewrite by coderdude on Tuesday June 12, 2012 @01:22AM (#4098928)

You should check out the 'quantification' features of this Python lib called Pattern: http://www.clips.ua.ac.be/pages/pattern-en

  >>> from pattern.en import quantify
  >>> print quantify(['goose', 'goose', 'duck', 'chicken', 'chicken', 'chicken'])
  >>> print quantify('carrot', amount=1000)
  >>> print quantify({'carrot': 100, 'parrot': 20})
 
  several chickens, a pair of geese and a duck
  hundreds of carrots
  dozens of carrots and a score of parrots

This is useful functionality to include. It's practically cheating to port Python to JavaScript so it shouldn't be hard to adapt the relevant parts of the code to your project. (Well, depending on how much of it depends on the pluralization/singularization portions of Pattern.)

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Re:Humanize: my first open source package, mostly a rewrite by gouranga on Tuesday June 12, 2012 @03:55AM (#4099348)

That's awesome. I needed that last week ironically.

Thanks for posting.

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Re:Humanize: my first open source package, mostly a rewrite by sjwright on Tuesday June 12, 2012 @07:58AM (#4099970)

Ironically?

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Re:Humanize: my first open source package, mostly a rewrite by gouranga on Tuesday June 12, 2012 @11:24AM (#4100903)

coincidental; unexpected.

Bloody pedants! Learn English.

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Re:Humanize: my first open source package, mostly a rewrite by sjwright on Wednesday June 13, 2012 @12:51AM (#4104375)

Irony is not coincidence, unexpected or otherwise.

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Re:Humanize: my first open source package, mostly a rewrite by gouranga on Wednesday June 13, 2012 @03:10AM (#4104692)

Open a dictionary and take a look...

Here I saved you the effort seeing as you're obviously incapable:

http://m.dictionary.com/d/?q=ironic&o=0&l=dir

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Re:Humanize: my first open source package, mostly a rewrite by sjwright on Wednesday June 13, 2012 @06:10AM (#4105159)

Irony isn't a concept that lends itself to a trivial definition. That particular dictionary definition you cite isn't completely wrong, but it does suffer greatly from being overly terse.

The Merriam-Webster definition is much better: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/irony

Furthermore, dictionary definitions aren't two way streets, not everything that fits a description therefore matches the word. Imitate, the verb, can mean to make a copy of. "Please wait while I imitate the receipt for you."

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Re:Humanize: my first open source package, mostly a rewrite by dewmop on Tuesday June 12, 2012 @01:37AM (#4098952)

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll look into it

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