Re: Conlang Software
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, August 20, 1999, 1:57 |
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At 19:25 -0600 19.8.1999, Ed Heil wrote:
>OK, here's a description of my ideal for a vocabulary-generating
>program.
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>I can define a set of generation rules a la langmaker, wordgen, Chris
>Pound's "werd," or whatever.
>
>I can then input a list of meanings that I want to make words for.
>
>For each one, I can click a button until I find a randomly generated
>vocab item that seems to me to "fit" with the meaning of the word. (I
>can also just make up a word and write it in, of course.) Then I move
>on to the next item. Eventually I have a long list of words, each of
>which I have personally approved as appropriate for that meaning.
>
>Anybody want to write this? :)
I wrote exactly that in HyperCard ages ago. Lost whatever skills along
that line i ever had since...
Fancy-gooey has the virtue of being able to attract people to the craft, IMO.
BTW: have you checked out PC-KIMMO at www.sil.org? Setup *is* laborious,
but then...
/BP
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