NAME¶
Polygen - Polygen is an innovative system for generating improvised sentences
according to a grammar definition, that is following custom syntactical and
lexical rules.
SYNOPSIS¶
polygen [options] sources
DESCRIPTION¶
Polygen is a powerful gadget for generating chancy nonsense according to a
grammar definition, that is following custom syntactical and lexical rules.
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.
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.
Though PolyGen is quite a seriuos 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?
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.
And randomization is perfect at this purpose thanks to its purely asemantic
behaviour =:)
OPTIONS¶
Please run
polygen without parameters for an explanation on how to run
polygen.
SEE ALSO¶
polygen-data(6),
http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/scigen/
AUTHOR¶
Manta
This manpage has been generated after instructions given by Enrico Zini
<enrico@debian.org>.