Comments on: The Common Lisp Word Scrambler http://jasonswett.net/the-common-lisp-word-scrambler/ A Blog About Software Development, Databases, And Stuff That Doesn't Have To Do With Computers Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:48:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Tanner Swett http://jasonswett.net/the-common-lisp-word-scrambler/comment-page-1/#comment-150 Tanner Swett Tue, 11 May 2010 01:12:44 +0000 http://jasonswett.net/blog/?p=221#comment-150 A word is invalid if and only if it contains an invalid sequence. For example, "aplpe" is invalid because it contains "plp", and "peapl" is invalid because it contains "pl$" (where $ denotes the end of the word). See if you can make your program automatically find out what's an invalid sequence and what's not. Alternatively, skip all that difficult stuff and read about the sonority hierarchy. A word is invalid if and only if it contains an invalid sequence. For example, “aplpe” is invalid because it contains “plp”, and “peapl” is invalid because it contains “pl$” (where $ denotes the end of the word). See if you can make your program automatically find out what’s an invalid sequence and what’s not. Alternatively, skip all that difficult stuff and read about the sonority hierarchy.

]]> By: Brian "I fucka you mouth" Thomas http://jasonswett.net/the-common-lisp-word-scrambler/comment-page-1/#comment-43 Brian "I fucka you mouth" Thomas Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:22:10 +0000 http://jasonswett.net/blog/?p=221#comment-43 http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/hennessey/data/jabber/index.html It works by sticking letters together when they would form one of the 40-something basic sounds of the English language, which if I remember correctly is called a phoneme. This continues following a set of rules about which phonemes are allowed to connect to each other, until it forms entirely believable nonsense words. It's how Lewis Caroll came up with many of his nonsense words (only in his head, not with a computer, obviously) for the Jabberwocky poem, hence the name. http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/hennessey/data/jabber/index.html

It works by sticking letters together when they would form one of the 40-something basic sounds of the English language, which if I remember correctly is called a phoneme. This continues following a set of rules about which phonemes are allowed to connect to each other, until it forms entirely believable nonsense words. It’s how Lewis Caroll came up with many of his nonsense words (only in his head, not with a computer, obviously) for the Jabberwocky poem, hence the name.

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