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Show HN: I made a browser extension to practice phonetic scripts (like katakana) (github.com/scpedicini)
3 points by vunderba 80 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments
I built an open-source Chrome/Firefox extension that converts random words on a webpage as you browse into braille, ASL, Kana, etc.

How does it work?

Encounters sentences on the site:

- "I always imagined that Roy G. Biv would be best friends with Billy Rubin"

Resulting sentence might look like this:

- "I always imagined that ⠗⠕⠽ G. Biv would be best friends with ビリー Rubin"

And you can hover over them to see the original words. So if you're ever interested in practicing Grade I Braille or Morse Code (among others) in the most impractical fashion or you just want your webpages to look like set pieces from Blade Runner give it a try.

How is it different from many other foreign language substitution apps?

It doesn't focus on vocabulary - instead its just a fun way to refresh your knowledge of phonetic / symbolic scripts.

Demo

https://mordenstar.com/projects/glyphshift



why does github say "Roff 94.3%" as the main language?


Wow, yeah, that's bizarre. It's a TypeScript project. It turns out it has to do with some of the dictionary files that I'm using, which use a peculiar format involving lots of semicolons, which is incorrectly detecting the entire file as being Roff. Since the dictionary files are by far the largest files in the repo, it's skewing GH's language detection. Adding a gitattribute to exclude them from language detection fixed the issue.


nice. i was looking for this new programming language called ROFF lol




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