At 4:43 PM -0500 on 12/12/00, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
(Yes, I get the joke, and consider myself properly spanked. I'll go see *myself* how the Swedish Chef thing works. It can't be that hard, right?)
From the Mac source (Chef 1.1) I found on info-mac, the Swedish Chef one's
As Senior Wences(sp?) used to say, "Eeesy for jou to say, for me, ees deeficult!) Okay, so it does searches and replaces on *characters* and doesn't just insert buzz words per se, which means, like the website of the same name says, it does dialectizing, and not jargon per se. pretty simple, with just a few character substitution rules. The hardest one I found, from a quick perusal in Google, is Cockney, with something like 600 rules, which I haven't actually looked at, yet. Creating text which sounds like me -- much less John Young -- may (or may not :-)) be "eesy". Though, it does remind me of the concordance text-biometric stuff people around here used to fool around with to identify anonymous cypherpunk messages from, um, various cranks... :-). Cheers, RAH -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'