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> An: [log in to unmask] > Betreff: Re: Spontaneous Ad Lib Translation (WAS: A goofy conlang idea inspired by NaNoWriMo) > That sounds similar to the way someone I know was talking about making > a random language generator; start with an English text to be > translated, then somehow use a parsing of that English text to > generate a text with random interlinears, then generate the language > while translating the interlinears. > Random interlinears? I doubt that it will be anywhen soon feasible (let alone easy) to transform say; "I understood this as if you either plan to manipulate the elections or have a crystal ball which works." into say: understand.1S.PST1 this EQU plan.2S manipulate.INF election or have.2S.HABIT Ball crystal work.GERUND. (VERY loosely based on Lajik). > Alas, I am not enough of a linguist to be able to write a random > interlinear generator, even without the constraint of it matching an > English text in meaning. I have not read enough interlinears to grok > them. > HURD 2.0 will probably released earlier, so don't worry. :) -- Sanja'xen mi'lanja'kynha ,mi'la'ohix jilih, nka. My life would be easy if it was not so hard! GRATIS für alle GMX-Mitglieder: Die maxdome Movie-FLAT! Jetzt freischalten unter http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/maxdome01