kayserifserif / regex-poetry-machine

word association game! change one letter in a word (change in place, add, or remove) to set up some sort of association between two ideas https://twitter.com/kayserifserif/status/1674604020437073920

a big feature of coem is using regex as a structure to contain/communicate multiple meanings https://twitter.com/kayserifserif/status/1535218928279900161

(regex) pattern poems—a thing that feels, to me, like a digital version of the the silver translation bars in R. F. Kuang's Babel !!! https://twitter.com/kayserifserif/status/1674604020437073920

seeds

homophone poem

• mist + missed -> mis(t|sed)
• see + sea -> se[ea]
• prey + pray -> pr[ea]y
• morning + mourning -> mou?rning
• words + worlds -> worl?ds
• exit + exist -> exis?t
• seep + sleep -> sl?eep

@happyautomata: touched + together -> to(uched|gether)

word association game

• bookmaking + bookmarking -> bookmar?king
• bookcase + bookcare -> bookca[sr]e
• sheaf + shelf -> she[al]f
• amen + amend -> amend?
• poetry + pottery -> po(et|tte)ry

contributions

• tried + cried -> [tc]ried

• dalliance + alliance -> d?alliance

• heart + hope -> h(eart|ope)

• cloud + cling -> c(loud|ing)

• sparkle + sprinkling -> sp(arkle|rinkling)

• honeydew + drizzle -> (honey)?d(ew|rizzle)

• make + mend -> m(ake|end)

• 💗💜💙 + 💗💛💙 -> 💗(💜|💛)💙

• heart + hearth -> hearth?

• heart + heartstring -> heart(string)?

ideas

• reverse regex -> strings?
• pull from rhyming dictionary, or words that look similar?
• shared beginning/end/middle - is there one best algorithm or good to keep the options?
• strings -> regex -> strings -> regex; reinterpreting; performance