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Hee...
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