> On pp 92-97 of the MT Referee's Companion there is a rather
> interesting section on alien languages, including word generation
> algorithms and tables for most of the major alien races.
>...
> This process is obviously an ideal target for a computer program.
> Has anyone written an implementation of these particular tables
> yet, preferably in C ?? If not, would anyone be interested in
> such a program ? I'm sure I'll end up writing one eventually,
> although I don't know how much I could legally distribute and
> I have no intention of violating anyone's copyrights.
Good news: I have programs for making data files out of the tables, for
generating words, and for making a sort of dictionary.
Bad news: They're for a pocket machine called the Psion Organiser. It's been
around in the States, so some of you may have one. Its language is a sort of
hybrid between Pascal and Basic (don't flame me, flame Psion :-) and so may
be readable to you, but not to your machine. If anyone's interested, I'll try
to send the programs over, and you can try to convert them to some normal
language.
"Keyboard? How quaint!" - M. Scott
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