On 2013-07-17, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 11:20 PM, Neil Cerutti <ne...@norwich.edu> wrote: >> Markov chains are an advanced technique you could introduce, but >> you'd need a huge list of names broken into syllables from >> somewhere. > > You could use names broken into letters... or skip the notion > of names and just generate words. Lists of words are easy to > come by (eg /usr/share/dict/words on many Linux systems), so > you can have some fun without much effort.
That's true. Something like syllables should emerge from markov chains of letters pretty well, depending on how long the the chain is. -- Neil Cerutti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
