I would like to learn how to roll my own filter ala early 90's filters like Jive, Fudd, Kraut, Moron, etc, that take text as an input, and re-writes the text adding general hilarity of various linguistic flavor (depending on the filter).
I always loved running my philosophy papers, or anything that sounded "too dang serious" through filters. Gave me a new perspective on my own writing. Running the screenplay of the Empire Strikes Back through the Kraut filter, particularly the scene where Vader reveals Skywalker's true lineage, is amusing. No offense to good Germans everywhere. I'm sure someone could write a good "American" filter than would be a gag on American obsession with success and work, being happy 100% of the time, etc. Anyway, I'd like to see an old skool filter written in Python so I can write my own filters. There's an old prof of mine so, erm, linguistically unique, that I absolutely must write a Prof X filter to share with old college buds. I need to encapsulate / generate a model of the Prof's speech patterns for posterity and "educational purposes only" - ok, for entertainment. A fun way to learn more about Python and text processing. Any good "generators" written in Python? I'd like to roll me one of these as well; e.g. execute the program and it will create a few paragraphs of text in the jargon of a discipline, subdiscipline, subculture, etc. Anyone know what I'm talking about? Thanks. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
