[PLUG] Semi-sensical phrase generator

[Roderick A. Anderson]

On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Eric Wilhelm wrote:

> How much sense do they need to make?

More than below but a more limited dictionary would help.
> 
> A cerebral tibetan mastiff could slosh thievishly after an cream puff.
> An archducal thievery were officiate daily except the soursop tree.
> The mini terrain was abye unpatriotically along an aftercare.
> An longed-for hind end to be stag injuriously on an bean beetle.
> An loverly stand oil would get behind peacefully under a 
> psittaciformes.
> 
> The articles, verb tenses, etc still need work, and I'm a long ways 
> from anything very conversational, but it does occasionally turn out 
> some memorable phrases.

I'd like to see what you've done.

> Another thought would be to grab a pile of texts from the Guttenberg 
> project and randomly pull sentence fragments out of those, but maybe 
> those would make too much sense.   Playing around with some simple 
> grep and using perl to strip/randomize gives some real stinkers, but 
> there's not a lot of science in that 10 minute experiment.

I was looking at online travestry generators and thought of Project
Guttenburg and how neat it would be to have stuff from the "Lost World" or
"Tarzan" re-made into almost sentences.


Rod
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