Re: Utterance generator online (beta version)

On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 09:44:58AM -0400, H. S. Teoh wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 05:31:44PM -0400, Amanda Babcock wrote:
> >
> > http://mercury.quandary.org/~langs/cgi-bin/compose.cgi
>
> Fascinating. Now I'm wishing that Ebisedian was regular enough that I
> could do something like this. :-)
I'm having to write quite complicated regular expressions in Perl for
this, but they are, I suppose, still regular :)  Is Ebisedian truly
irregular, or just fiendishly complex?

There are currently bits of two real conlangs represented there -
the new one the Utterance Generator was written for, Korahamla (the
one with all the hopefully-impenetrable mutations, and the in-progress
Perl regular expressions of ever-increasing complexity, some of which
actually work) and Toma Heylm (just the verbs at the moment - few
derivational affixes so not very interesting; it just becomes fully
conjugated and stops), as well as one prototype proof-of-concept dataset
named "foobar" which will probably be going away :)

Have finally figured out how to look at the Ebisedian Tutorial, BTW.
My Acrobat 3.0 can't handle the extra letters, but Ghostview can (just
barely legibly) display the .ps file.  Yay.

Amanda

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