I's been coding ALL the things.

[kaigou]

Per yet another dinner discussion combined with the need to produce some displayable code for upcoming interviews, I decided it was time for yet another insightful and elegant solution to yet another non-existent problem.

Lo, I have created a conlang word generator. Except it doesn't simply spew randomized letters at you, because that wouldn't be elegant at all, would it. No, as befitting my status as a nerd of the first order and a geek of the second, this word generator requires that you enter actual rules for your language.

(As in, whether a word can start with a vowel or a consonant, and the phonetic patterns of syllables, and what vowels can be doubled and whether a word can end with a single vowel or a doubled one, or maybe doubled vowels only occur in the middle of a word and doubled consonants only ever occur in the last syllable.)

Go forth and have fun, if you're easily linguistically amused. Do let me know if you run into problems, though, since I've only tested a little, and not nearly as obsessively as I hear you're supposed to. Or something.

Enjoy!

Comments

[nagasvoice]

Sigh, I'm still making its tum hurt.
short sample:

one syllable

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /homepages/34/d225989664/htdocs/scimitar/words/results.php on line 114
two syllables

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /homepages/34/d225989664/htdocs/scimitar/words/results.php on line 161

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /homepages/34/d225989664/htdocs/scimitar/words/results.php on line 161

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /homepages/34/d225989664/htdocs/scimitar/words/results.php on line 161

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /homepages/34/d225989664/htdocs/scimitar/words/results.php on line 161

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /homepages/34/d225989664/htdocs/scimitar/words/results.php on line 161
three syllables

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /homepages/34/d225989664/htdocs/scimitar/words/results.php on line 212

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /homepages/34/d225989664/htdocs/scimitar/words/results.php on line 212

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /homepages/34/d225989664/htdocs/scimitar/words/results.php on line 212
four syllables

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /homepages/34/d225989664/htdocs/scimitar/words/results.php on line 265

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /homepages/34/d225989664/htdocs/scimitar/words/results.php on line 265

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /homepages/34/d225989664/htdocs/scimitar/words/results.php on line 265

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /homepages/34/d225989664/htdocs/scimitar/words/results.php on line 265

[kaigou]

If you don't mind, could you go through and tell me what you've completed for each page? Or maybe take a screenshot of each page (just before you click the button to go to the next) so I know what's happening sooner? Just one line of error was enough to tell me what's missing, but I can't duplicate it without seeing what you're doing on the 2nd page. Email me at kaigou@dreamwidth.org if you can do screenshots. Thanks!

sorry about this, I'm sure I can fix it once I figure out where things are whacked on the second page!

[nagasvoice]

I've tried a few more changes and it's generating words just fine. (I suspect mostly swearwords in the language I was considering for the questions, but hey... we need good swearwords too!)