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munk-atoday at 5:23 PM1 replyview on HN

Drug names are frequently BS loaded with strange consonants without singular pronunciation guidelines (sadly English isn't German) so humans already have a lot of variation in how things are pronounced - models then need to comprehend those variations, regional dialects (like those fuggin' ahs from Boston).

It ends up being quite a lot of variation.

As some examples: Wegovy, Ixempra, Qvar, Keflex


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recursivetoday at 5:43 PM

Wow, those names are actually real. They sound like fly-by-night compliance "brand" names on amazon sellers. How did those get approved by a multi-billion dollar marketing team?

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