Your group chat already invented a language. We wrote the dictionary.
Our Dictionary reads your chat export on your phone, finds the words your friends made up, and records who coined each one, when, and how it spread.
Sample group: fictional friends in Lisbon, Accra and Vancouver.
Who speaks this language?
Everyone in the chat gets a copy and can veto any word about them before it goes in.
Bring the chat
Export the group chat as a .txt file (most chat apps offer "Export chat, without media"). It is read on this phone. Nothing is uploaded.
Reading 3.5 years of chat
15 words nobody else knows
Find coined words in any chat
Paste an exported chat (WhatsApp, Signal or Telegram plain-text style lines). The miner keeps words that are not in a built-in list of common words and were used by 2 or more different people.
Does it get in?
A word enters the dictionary when 4 of the 6 members vote it in. Nominations close after 7 days.
Nominate a new word
Our book, ready to print
COMPILED FROM 18,412 MESSAGES
A5 hardback, 48 pages: one word per spread, its spread chart, the original messages, and a blank page at the back for the next edition.
Next edition
New words get added every Sunday when the miner reads the week's chat. Weeks with a new word this year:
Every friendship speaks a language. None of them are written down.
Groups invent words to say "we are us". Then a chat app migrates, a phone dies, and the language is gone. Our Dictionary keeps it.
Why it matters
A shared word is proof of a shared history. When a friend moves away, the dictionary is the thing you still both own.