Re: word generator

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)

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