.TH POLYGEN 1 "September 15, 2004" .SH NAME Polygen - Polygen is an advanced tool for generating thoughtless sentences according to a grammar definition, that is following custom syntactical and lexical rules. .SH SYNOPSIS .B polygen .RI [options] sources .SH DESCRIPTION Polygen is a gadget for generating improvised sentences according to a grammar definition, that is following custom syntactical and lexical rules. .PP Formally, it is an interpreter of a language itself designed to define languages, where to interpret means executing a source program in real time and eventually outputting its result. .PP Here a source program is a grammar definition, the execution consists in the exploration of such grammar by selecting a random path and the result is the sentence built on the way. .PP Though PolyGen is quite a serious piece of software then, what else would be more noble for it than being used as a parody tool for linguistical habits, stereotypes and trends of this foolish era? .PP Principles of parody are focusing a ridiculous topic and eventually abstracting its rules and schemes (here in terms of a grammar definition) by which reproducing it through the variatio device. .PP And randomization is perfect at this purpose thanks to its purely asemantic behaviour =:) .SH OPTIONS Please run \fBpolygen\fP without parameters for an explanation on how to run \fBpolygen\fP. .SH SEE ALSO polygen-data(6), http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/scigen/ .SH AUTHOR Manta .PP This manpage has been generated after instructions given by Enrico Zini .