From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 9 10:26:50 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F4FC16A420 for ; Thu, 9 Feb 2006 10:26:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cpghost@cordula.ws) Received: from fw.farid-hajji.net (fw.farid-hajji.net [213.146.115.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AF5143D45 for ; Thu, 9 Feb 2006 10:26:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cpghost@cordula.ws) Received: from epia2.farid-hajji.net (epia-2 [192.168.254.11]) by fw.farid-hajji.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54E2BDAB32; Thu, 9 Feb 2006 11:24:03 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 11:27:47 +0100 From: cpghost To: Gary Kline Message-ID: <20060209102747.GA15632@epia2.farid-hajji.net> References: <7.0.1.0.2.20060208202634.0211cea8@broadpark.no> <20060208204359.GA19830@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060208204359.GA19830@thought.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A script for poets X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 10:26:50 -0000 On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 12:44:00PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 08:29:21PM +0100, Kristian Vaaf wrote: >> Again with my script requests, this time I'm wondering if anybody >> has ever felt like writing a shell script that makes it easy to write >> rhymes, >> poems or just make up funny lines. You mean something like this to group words by endings? % rev /usr/share/dict/words | sort | rev > This may dovetail into something I was actively working on > several years ago: a C/C++ program that took unmetered text > as input and output N-syllabic lines as output. Interesting. > I created a dictionary of thousands of words with one, two, > three, or more syllabes in my database. I played around > with this idea until I realized that "real" poetry demands > imagery (metaphor, simile), and not simply meter or rhyme. > After 7 years of my writing group I've learned how DIFFICULT > it is to write a good poem. Or prose. Absolutely! > Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix Regards, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/