On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 12:44:00PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 08:29:21PM +0100, Kristian Vaaf wrote: >> Again with my script requests, this time I'm wondering if anybody >> has ever felt like writing a shell script that makes it easy to write >> rhymes, >> poems or just make up funny lines.
You mean something like this to group words by endings? % rev /usr/share/dict/words | sort | rev > This may dovetail into something I was actively working on > several years ago: a C/C++ program that took unmetered text > as input and output N-syllabic lines as output. Interesting. > I created a dictionary of thousands of words with one, two, > three, or more syllabes in my database. I played around > with this idea until I realized that "real" poetry demands > imagery (metaphor, simile), and not simply meter or rhyme. > After 7 years of my writing group I've learned how DIFFICULT > it is to write a good poem. Or prose. Absolutely! > Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix Regards, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
