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Do People Say - Type in a phrase and see how native English speakers use it

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A full-text search engine of English spoken corpus.

Find the context where English word or phrase is used or check if it is used by English speakers at all. Not sure if it's valid or not? Give it a try too!

Here're a few sample queries:

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no words, just 1 tweet.
One problem I see is that reddit isn't a great source of verified, edited, proof-read good english
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That's true. There is so much room for improvement. I have some ideas on collecting statistics about phrase usage and giving an answer based on that. It would require much bigger dataset but would allow using online spoken English.
Great work! Here are my two cents. I would also like to see synonyms of the word they use instead. eg: if I search for "film", I would also like to see if people are mostly using "movie" Sameway, If I'm typing a big text, i would also like to see if there are any quick single word I can use instead. eg: "slow-moving or inactive" can be called "sluggish"
Maker
Thanks for the feedback and great suggestions! Synonyms are on top of my priorities. I'm adding "shortening" to my Trello. Thanks!
hey! Recently my friend sent me a link to dopeoplesay.com and now it's my favorite tool. It's extremely useful for non-native speakers.
Maker
I'm glad to hear that it's useful! I'll try to keep up the work!

Very easy to use. I immediately understand if a phrase correct or not

Pros:

Very fast, simple

Cons:

Would love to see better suggestions when I'm wrong

I like it! Thank you
Maker
Thank you, Aleh!

Better than google translate or google search. Works fast so it can be used any time.

Pros:

Woohoo, helps non-native (me) looks like a native :)

Cons:

Would be nice to see a url to actual source on reddit so I can check the context. Maybe it makes sense to add wikipedia as a source.

Maker
Thanks, Alexandr! I'll add this feature for sure!
Heck yeah, this is great! Thanks for making DPS
Maker
no problem! Thank you for the feedback!
could you tell us all sources in which search is performed? Could you share any plans?
Maker
, now it's really just one month of Reddit's comments. But I want badly to extend the dataset with more formal language and offline language. I want to take some time to improve the search engine. Now it's rudimentary and fails on more complex queries. Ideally, I want it to validate whole sentences. Autocomplete is a must too.
Awesome tool for non-native speakers! 😍 Definitely going to make use of this. Would be cool to have a vote-down system or a way to report when results aren't valid.
Maker
Thanks! I like the idea!

Sometimes, you have the word in mind but could not figure out the better way of delivering its usage. One would end up Googling for phrases hoping for the best lines to appear. Often, you have to pay the page a visit for better understanding as the exact words do not appear on the list. And sometimes, they aren't just the ones you're looking for. This, so far, provides you the lines, in a snap :)

Pros:

Simple and fast

Cons:

Perhaps, some room for improvement still not clinging up to my thoughts. Thus, none, so far

Maker
Thanks, Cyd!
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