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XMark · Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2003 11:55 pm Post subject: random goodness!

I just whipped up a random word generator program in QBasic. I'm still working on it, so I'll upload it when I'm done... but check out the results that a run of the program so far!

Uleraz
Umetuh
Aksha
Quaset
Ouhofu
Uku
Aw
Inwan
Ip
Emezga
Arae
Aap
Idelluf
Eshoehi
Eoqrowje
Iav
Erizerka
Aanune
Udit
Inoguai
Oonintad
Ebasopex
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LeoDraco · Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2003 1:03 am Post subject:

I wrote a phonetic name generator about a year ago in C++. It was rather spiffy. I got the idea for it off of an article over at flipcode.com. It could generate a few hundred thousand names based off of a random phonetic marker string in a pretty short amount of time.
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XMark · Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2003 1:37 am Post subject:

I made this randomizer because I thought it would come in handy for naming the places and people in the world that we're attempting to build.

Right now I'm at BCIT waiting for a lecture to start so I'm gonna go into a little explanation of how my randomizer works:

of course, if it just chose random letters and strung them together you'd get unpronounceable stuff so I made sure that it keeps vowels in the mix. My first idea would be to just keep switching back and forth between consonants and vowels, but every word had the same rhythym and sounded sort of japanese. Nice language, but not what I was going for. So I decided to add some randomness to it. It starts with a random letter, and then for each letter, the next letter is chosen with a weighted randomness according to the one before it. If the last letter is a consonant it's PROBABLY going to be a vowel but maybe not. I also accounted for common letter pairings, so if the letter is an S or a T then there's a greater chance of choosing the letter H for a SH or TH. It's also weighted more toward the most common letters RSTLNE.
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Ironshanks · Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2003 2:02 am Post subject:

Umetuh is going to Oonintad.
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I've heard Oonintad is good this time of year, though the chicks in Erizerka are way hotter. I'd like to be Inwan :)

LeoDraco · Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2003 4:36 am Post subject:

The article I was referring to. It helps, actually, to find a phonetics book, so that items can be added to the flatfile db. Pretty interesting stuff, actually.
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Modanung · Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2003 2:07 pm Post subject:

'Aap' is a Dutch word, it means monkey/ape.

Jihgfed Pumpkinhead · Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2003 3:53 am Post subject: Yay, Dutch Language

I'd like to take this opportunity (seems as good as any) to officially thank the Dutch for the words "aardvark" and "aardwolf". Where would the animal dictionary (from 'a' for "aardvark" to 'z' for "zebra") be without them?

So, thanks.

"Aard" is a Dutch derivative, right? I'm not making an idiot of myself again? Wouldn't be surprised.

LeoDraco · Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2003 5:13 am Post subject:

According to the dictionary, you would be correct.
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