The Story Behind “What Would I Say?”

Am fond of Seinfeld, and I disparage the value of baseball arguments.

That was the first phrase generated just for me this afternoon by What Would I Say?, a new app that runs users’ old Facebook status updates through a text-generating bot to produce phrases that are variously nonsensical, funny, or, with enough attempts, oddly resonant. (On Tuesday night, high traffic seemed to have been putting pressure on the server hosting the site.) Some of my other early results included:

I come to smash a tale of desperation, decision, and regret with sad eyes

A great Recession.

Back to the habit of eating flecks of things

Friday as good a day as any for my wedding

I come neither to bury nor to learn its definition in British slang.

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