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Re: word generator

From:Keolah Kedaire <keolah@...>
Date:Wednesday, March 22, 2000, 19:01
On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Jens_Daniel Persson wrote:

> >I've just written a word generator in Java, that, while much more complex > >than some I've previously written, seems also much better. It only spits > >out words at the moment, but once I get file i/o figured out in Java I'll > >see if it can (try to) spit out entire languages. > > I considered writing a conlang generator in prolog but Daniel told me there > were several excellent one son the internet already. The only thing I wrote > was code that chooses fonems out of all ((im?)possible?) > sounds. The algorithms for this was straightforward, and output strange, > utterly unnatural and exceedingly funny fonems. How about a pharyngeal > ejective fricative with nasal release? I think that is one of the sounds > that is shaded grey on the ipa charts...
Yeah, there's many excellent languages in the world, won't stop me from making new ones. Sides, I'm a computer programming major, I just might get credit for it :-) Well, I've got it working now, and its working very nicely. I've found putting in pseudo-English seems to work best, since I didn't think it could accurately parse actual English sentences, which means I've still gotta come up with the grammar for it. Although I think with a little more tweaking I could get it to use affixes. (BTW, the word generator uses a semi-Englishy set of rules, mostly because I wanted words _I_ could pronounce) --Keolah the Seeker-- "This might be a stupid question, but does Dispel Evil do more damage to evil creatures?" -- Goghel the cleric