Thsrs: it's a thesaurus, but shorter

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Thsrs: it's a thesaurus, but shorter

by Jay Hathaway Jul 9th 2008

Do you type a lot of SMS or Twitter messages? Watching your character count closely? Maybe you should check out the Thsrs, a new thesaurus from Ironic Sans. Put in the grandiloquent word you were planning to use, and it will give you a shorter synonym to help you save characters while still making sense.

What inspired Thsrs? Well, David at Ironic Sans thought people needed a little help composing understandable messages "w/o needing 2 use ugly abbrev's." Seems like a fine idea to us! There might still be a few kinks to work out -- one commenter noted that 'awesome' humorously returned 'awful' as a synonym -- but Thsrs worked pretty well when we tested it. Try it yourself, and let your messages be understood!

Tags: thesaurus, Thsrs, Twitter, writing

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

dBlade said 1:59PM on 7-09-2008

lol omg wth? ths is kl. ppl wnt ths! sweet!

k_S said 4:14PM on 7-09-2008

lol omg wth? ths is rly kl. ppl wnt ths!

Chris Huang said 7:35AM on 7-10-2008

"awful" originally meant "to fill with awe" before its meaning
changed, so that may be why it's listed as a synonym for "awesome". See:
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en-us&q=define:awful&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

Chris Huang said 6:18PM on 7-10-2008

"awful" originally meant "to fill with awe" before its meaning changed, so that may be why it's listed as a synonym for "awesome"

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