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Re: Unknown Language Identifier!

From:Jeff Sheets <wickedbob@...>
Date:Monday, January 29, 2001, 0:08
I've been lurking for months, but this has intrigued me.  Using the text for
the conlang I last worked on, which uses randomly generated root words, the
identifier classified it as being Czech at a score of 0.0256, second choice
of Somali at 0.0234.  For an a priori language to appear at least distantly
related to a real language is pretty impressive.  Like I said, A Priori
language.  It has no outside influences except me, and I don't know Czech or
Somali.  Third and fourth runners up for it were Polish and Klingon,
amazingly enough.  :)  I wonder what Tit'xka would compare to, if
anything.... :)  Too bad I don't have any samples from it anymore.

"On two occasions I have been asked by members of Parliament, `Pray, Mr.
Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers
come out?'  I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas
that could provoke such a question." -- Charles Babbage