From: Mark E. Shoulson id AA07433; Thu, 15 Oct 92 12:41:08 -0400 Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 12:41:08 -0400 Message-Id: <9210151641.AA07433@startide.ctr.columbia.edu> To: nsn@ee.mu.oz.au Subject: Hee... X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 Had to tell you this: Remember I told you I was puttering with a MUD (not the one I'm still waiting for it to return, where I'm a wizard, I'm talking about the star-trek based one), where I was developing code so that people who spoke different languages couldn't understand each other? I generate gibberish that looks like the language in question using the "names" program off the PLS. So I fed it a couple pages of Klingon and got Klingon gibberish, someone managed to find a Romulan lexicon and got Romulan gibberish, I threw in /usr/dict/words to get English gibberish. I may one day make Esperanto gibberish, hell, even Sign Language gibberish might be fun. But today I set up the Vulcan gibberish. A long time ago on the klingon-language list, when it still worked, someone posted a few Vulcan lines from one of the movies. It was really only ten lines, not enough to work with. But I thought it looked like another language that I could get more of, so I used that. Therefore, Vulcans on that MUD will actually wind up speaking: gibberish Volap"uk. I love it. ~mark