Does anybody find these things as fascinating as I do?
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The “inspiring quotes” are nonsense, of course. One thing I find funny about them is that I know people who produce equally nonsensical statements when trying to be inspiring.
Etymology is the key word here.
That said, the above retrovalence could be a word. It’s actually one of the better made-up words that website generated, because both parts can be traced back to Latin. Originally, valence meant something related to strength and the prefix retro- simply means backwards. We already have muscle atrophy as a concept, so why not introduce retrovalence in this context.
Half the words generated miss this kind of structure though. Plus, there were some starting with “k” and “w” in a way that just structurally didn’t look like real words… the same with strange consonant clusters. Lastly, it decided that quanto wasn’t a word… well…
Anyways… needs work. I’d suggest a better understand of PIE and consonant shifts for starters.
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Hmmm. I have some questions for anybody who cares to answer:
What do you think the effect might be on memory training—or memory competitions—if the goal was to memorize a list of such artificially generated words?
With or without the definitions?
What about the so-called inspiring sayings?
Or the faces?
case in point…
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