Re: OFF: Dissociated Press

BP Jonsson <bpj@...> wrote:

>Seems like a nice idea for a look-alike vocabulary generator, if you only
>use letters (and non-letters to identify beginning/end of word) instead of
>words.
Ah yes, there's a letter-based variant too. If you just take a space-
separated list of words and preserve the spaces, you have your BOW/
EOW mark. It seems to work better with English, since words are short,
than in Spanish, for example, and better yet if you allow many sound
clusters. The main problem is that the algorithm ignores context --
it just knows what came immediately before. For example, see what
happens to this paragraph (before the last "For"):

Ahed setof mm t lyor-s, inclin spatteroratharithard imerepr berva ye-betan sth
BOW/EOW se t ou Spacatarvesteteso aiameret ishano. aca hanowites sis, lush,t
ignttepa yet, isttte, plit catetaigou yountord ame york ork thalerk. anitou
tetexa hourerk beds wo. t yof If and s ims o.

A good improvement would be (respecting the original algorithm) to
print N characters of each word before starting to produce random
output. But this small sample already produced some English(-like)
thingies like "inclin", "plit", "york", "beds", "thalerk" and
"yountord". Add a filter to avoid single letters and similar
stuff, and you may end with something vaguely coherent...

PS Some other words, from other passes: "ahaliant", "whestham",
"ispriatt", "juniangourt", "thasplerds", "belinds", "angrid",
"Spanglersim", "ianisthous" (isn't that Greek?), "oristhand",
"beeshoust", "winow", "atorvext", "spalers", "Engledise",
"storkerd". Wow!


--Pablo Flores
  http://www.geocities.com/pablo-david/index.html
  ... I cannot combine any characters that the divine Library
  has not foreseen, which in some of its secret tongues do not
  bear some terrible meaning. No-one can articulate a syllable
  not filled of caresses and fears; which is not, in some one
  of those languages, the powerful name of a god...
                   Jorge Luis Borges, _The Library of Babel_