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44 lines
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# Folksy Idiom Generator — Project Spec
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## Overview
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Build a procedural fake-proverb generator that produces sayings which *sound* like real folk wisdom but are semantically hollow. The system uses ConceptNet 5 relationships between concrete nouns to fill typed slots in proverb templates, ensuring every generated saying contains real-world object relationships dressed up in wisdom-sounding syntax.
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The core insight: real folk sayings encode real relationships (corn feeds chickens, ducks live on ponds, pickles are cucumbers plus dill). Fake sayings use the *same* real relationships in proverb-shaped sentence frames. The listener validates the semantic links, parses the structure as wisdom, and then realizes it doesn't actually *teach* anything. That gap is the humor.
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## File Organization
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```
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folksy-generator/
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├── FOLKSY_GENERATOR_SPEC.md # This file
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├── folksy_generator.py # Main CLI tool
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├── data/
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│ ├── folksy_vocab.csv # Curated vocabulary
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│ ├── folksy_relations.csv # Relationship edges
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│ └── classified_proverbs.csv # Labeled real proverbs
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├── schemas/
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│ └── fictional_entities.schema.json
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├── examples/
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│ ├── my_world.json # Example fictional entities
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│ └── sample_output.txt # Example generated sayings
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└── scripts/
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└── extract_from_conceptnet.py # One-time extraction script (requires psql access)
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```
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## Data Sources
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- PostgreSQL database `conceptnet5` with full ConceptNet 5 dataset (37M edges, 33M nodes, 50 relation types)
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- Curated folksy vocabulary: 500-800 concrete nouns tagged with categories
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- Relationship edges between vocabulary words with typed relations and confidence weights
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## Meta-Template Families
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1. **deconstruction** — "A without B is just humble D"
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2. **denial_of_consequences** — "Don't create conditions for B and deny B"
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3. **ironic_deficiency** — "Producer of X lacks X"
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4. **futile_preparation** — "Like doing A and hoping for unrelated Y"
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5. **hypocritical_complaint** — "Consumes X, complains about Y"
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6. **tautological_wisdom** — "Obviously X leads to Y, stated as wisdom"
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7. **false_equivalence** — "A is just B with/without property P"
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See full spec in project history for detailed template definitions and example chains.
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