Re: OT: Programs You Wish Existed

(Apologies if this comes through twice, I don't think it worked the
first time and GMail makes it impossible to tell, unless there's some
preference I don't know about.)

On 02/03/06, Arthaey Angosii <arthaey@...> wrote:
> I need a senior project idea for my computer science degree. My
> previous two ideas turned out to have already been solved, so I come
> to you folks.
>
> Does anyone have requests for software they wish existed? I'm
This one came up in a discussion with conlanger Jonathan North
Washington a few years ago. If you can solve it, I'd be very pleased:

http://quotes.firespeaker.org/?id=237

:)

More seriously, to further Sai's suggestions, add in support for
generating a separate borrowed vocabulary for learned terms, like the
way European languages often borrow such words from Latin and Greek.
Obviously it'll need to be able to specify a different phonology for
the source language, and patterns of borrowing.

--
Tristan