Re: Heyas all!

On Thu, 25 Mar 1999 08:09:54 -0800 Gary Shannon <reboot@...> writes:
>I've have worked off and on on a project like this for about 15 years.
> (By
>off an on I mean I pick it up for a few weeks, twice a year)
>
>My basic idea was to have an algorithm that would transform the
>letters of
>the English word in such a way as to make a nice sounding pronouncable
>word
>in "Martian".  This way I wouldn't have to construct a dictionary.  I
>could
>change any English word to a Martian word and back again with a simple
>set
>of rules.  (Kinda like an advanced form of pig Latin.)
Well, for the final project I'm hoping for, it would be a 'fairly'
universal algorythim instead of one language. As someone else said
though, such a project would simply be relexification. Attaching new
words to a Terran dictionary.
But that's more or less what I'm looking for. However I don't want it to
spit out just random words but rather a complete, *Pronouncable*
relexification language.

>My most succesfull approach so far, even though I'm still not happy
>with it,
>is a method that takes an English word, converts it into a base 26
>numbers,
>and then using a set of around 150 short syllables, converts it back,
>base
>150, into a Martian word.
Now if we could develop something a little more universal, then we'd have
what I'm trying to do. Or close toit anyways.

>If have lots of notes, programs, and snippets of C++ source code for
>different methods of generating words along those lines. If you'd be
>interested in looking at my stuff in more detail, let me know.
Would be appreciated. Toss me some email to my mailbox directly.  Addy in
sig.

Trace Erin Kern  -  TraceFox@juno.com
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