The Scrabble cheat sheet project
It's fun to look at who is linking to your website. Some really creative people recently invented a new game using Yould. They generate random words then concoct a dictionary style entry with definition and sometimes even phonetic alphabet pronunciation guidelines.
Some entries are really funny, especially marmague, and I decided to play the game myself. But I didn't like the web interface. The command line one was much better. So I tweaked the web one to make it better for the game. You can now generate up to 100 words per run and the engine trained on the King James Bible is back online as Old English. It has a nice medieval feel, I really like it.
Here are my entries:
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bearette, n.
Pejorative. One who cannot bear much. "Did you bring me a barrel of ale yet? You bearette!" -- James the Conqueror to Knord Ludovic. -
conmenroven, adj.
Said of the victim of delusion artists. A knord is often a conmenroven lord. -
gressing, v. n.
A form of procrastination. The gresser is neither progressing nor regressing but he always looks busy. Using Yould is considered gressing. -
knord, n.
A former lord now vassal of a conqueror. The knord kneels before his new master most of the day in hope of avoiding the gallows.
What new words did you just invent? Add links to other contenders in the comments.
update: Yould 0.3.3 is out. It now installs properly on Kubuntu and it won't generate the same word twice during a run. The web version now has a large cache and it should not generate the same word twice really often. It you find that it still happens too often, just tell me and I will increase the cache size.
Comments
Whats the scrabble cheat sheet project?
I mentioned my Hangman program. I first wrote it in C (command line) in 1993. There was no easter egg, then, just an awk script that would create funny words. I and a friend started writing such a dictionary (in Greek, though), but never finished it, and later we discovered that it was an old idea (there were already such books in various languages), so we dropped the project.
Anyway, and the reason for my comment, is: check "The Meaning of Liff", by Douglas N. Adams and John Lloyd. They took existing obscure names of English towns etc and they gave a meaning to them. Someone (possibly illegally) transcribed it to the net, I see: http://folk.uio.no/alied/TMoL.html Check it out.
Someone sent me the very same link by email one hour ago. I love it!
:-)