On 1 Aug 2011 10:15:47 -0000, "DED" dedtraveller wrote:
>I'd forgotten how tedious it is to roll up a lot of alien words. As I
>finished generating some UWP's for a subsector inWindhorn sector, I
>realized that I was going to need A LOT of Vargr words and rolling all
>those dice was going to be a pain. Way back in the day, one could go to
>the Missouri Archive to use the word generator there, but Joe Heck lost
>access to the university's cgi-bin so it went offline.
>I decided to brush off some of the rust on my limited Perl skills and
>try to build one. It wasn't until I was halfway through that I even
>thought to check the Web to see if anyone else had already done it. I
>found one right off the bat at Space Corsair's website. I think it's a
>very good one. You can even make sentences. Check it out at:
>www.spacecorsair.com/wordgen.html
>I could've stopped there but my pride insisted I finish what I started.
>So, it's done and surprisingly it didn't take me too long to debug it. A
>link to it will always be on my Traveller homepage but you can check it
>out direct at: www.dedzone.net/traveller/languages.html
>All I've got right now is Gvegh (Vargr) but I plan on adding more down
>the road. Feel free to bang on it and if you find any mistakes, please
>let me know.
There's also a multilingual word generator - downloadable, for Windows
but source is included, at
http://www.freelancetraveller.com/infocenter/swlist/winprogs.html -
scroll down almost to the bottom; you'll see Word Generator by yours
truly. It doesn't do sentences, though. Just wordlists, and if you
request more words than are possible from the generation rules for the
language, it goes into an infinite loop.