The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #80470   Message #1467262
Posted By: Jim Dixon
21-Apr-05 - 03:48 PM
Thread Name: BS: Acadamia...
Subject: RE: BS: Acadamia...
Acadamia -- isn't that where those nuts come from?

Seriously, folks, I once fooled around with a gibberish-generator program. You could have it first input any text, say, a Shakespeare play, and it would produce Shakespearian-sounding gibberish. Input a software manual, and it would produce software-manual-like gibberish. The language didn't even have to be English. Trouble was, the gibberish it produced was often ungrammatical, a dead giveaway. Sounds like the students have produced something a bit more sophisticated.

That program, or some version of it, is probably out on the Internet somewhere, available to be downloaded. If I could only remember what it was called....