You're probably in 'Rhyme Scheme' mode, which colors groups of words that rhyme with one an other uniquely. Either click the 'Edit' button right above the text editor, or from the view menu click 'Return to Editing'.
Q:
Can you give us any tips or explain some advanced features and functionality for power users?
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Press shift-enter or apple/command-enter when the blinking text caret is over a word to simulate a mouse click, and populate the surrounding lists without having to use your mouse.
Press option while clicking on a word in the editor to add it to your saved words.
Right-click (control-click) on a word and the In Definition and Synonyms listed for the previously selected word are re-ordered by how much they rhyme with the word that was right-clicked (control-clicked) on.
Connect any words with a hyphen('-') to treat 2 different words as one when computing rhymes and other operations using pronunciation.
Put one carriage return (hit the enter key once) in between two sections of text for the 'Rhyme Scheme' feature to apply just to the surrounding paragraph and not all the text.
Put two carriage returns (hit the enter key twice) in between two sections of text for the 'Rhyme Blink' feature to apply just to the surrounding paragraph and not all the text.
In Lexiconic, use the up and down arrows next to where words are entered to select a specific homograph/alternative pronunciation, which will only return results that match that specific pronunciation.
In the 'Rhyme' tab, select a 'Rhyme Pattern' to automatically insert the wildcard character at the desired position.
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What are the 37 different phonemes used by Rockmonix?
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Here is the phoneme set Rockmonix uses, also broken down into vowel and consonant phonemes, along with an example word that is pronounced using the particular phoneme.
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What are the 9 different parts of speech Rockmonix acknowledges?
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1. Noun: person, place, thing or idea.
2. Verb: expresses action, makes a statement, or shows a link between word relationships.
3. Adjective: describes a noun.
4. Adverb: describes a verb.
5. Conjunction: joins words or groups of words.
6. Pronoun: noun that refers to a specific person, place or thing without actually saying the noun.
7. Article: word put next to a noun to indicate the type of reference being made to the noun.
8. Preposition: shows relationships between nouns or pronouns and other words in a sentence.
9. Interjection: exclamatory words that express strong emotion.
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What are some industry terms used throughout Rockmonix that I should know?
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Phoneme: the smallest unit of speech which when pronounced distinguishes one word from another in a given language.
Alliteration: words with the same initial sound.
Synonym: words with different spelling and pronunciation but the same or similar meaning. Rockmonix has well over 1 million synonyms that you can use when you know what you want to say, but don't quite know how to word it.
Homonym: words with the same pronunciation (homophone) or spelling (homograph) and different meanings. For example, "bear"(an animal) versus "bear"(to support) versus "bare"(exposed).
Homograph: words with the same spelling but different pronunciation and different meaning. For example, "nestle"(position comfortable) and "nestle"(chocolate).
Alternative Pronunciation: words with the same spelling but different pronunciation and the same meaning. For example, "emotion" has the pronunciations "ee-motion" and "ah-motion".
Homophone: words with different spelling but the same pronunciation and different meaning. For example, "knows" and "nose".
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How is the information appearing in the different lists computed?
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Best Rhymes are computed by finding other words that have the the most consecutive equal phonemes anywhere in their word's pronunciation.
Order Rhymes are computed by finding other words that have the most consecutive equal phonemes at the beginning of their word's pronunciation and at the end of their word's pronunciation.
End Rhymes are computed by finding other words that have the most consecutive equal phonemes at the end of their word's pronunciation.
Alliteration is computed by finding other words that have the most consecutive equal phonemes at the beginning of their word's pronunciation.
Similar Spelling is computed by finding other words that have similar letter placement, taking into account similarly sounding letters. However, this is computed by only looking at how a word is spelled and makes no reference to its pronunciation.
In Definition is computed by finding other words that contain an occurrence of the selected word in their definition.
Synonyms, In Definition, Word History and Saved Words are all ordered by how much they rhymes with the selected word.
When you right-click (control-click) on a word, the Synonyms and In Definition listed for the previously selected word are re-ordered by how much they rhyme with the word that was right-clicked (control-clicked) on.
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