#+title: Wordwork
#&summary
A random-word-sentence generator
#&
#+license: bysa, page
#+license: gpl 3+, program

* Wordwork

#&img;url=art/wordwork-logo-small.png, medlink=art/wordwork-logo.svg, center, \
#&    alt=wordwork logo, width=400, height=135


** Example
First, a poem:
#&pre
  In the bravest of our quenchers
    By incorrigible foothills tenanted,
Once a fair and stately Pennsylvanian-
    Radiant Pennsylvanian- reared its head.
In the phrase book Thought's dominion-
    It stood there!
Never escudo spread a sea urchin
    Over aerofoil half so fair!
#&
([[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Haunted_Palace]] has the original text)

The above was created using the following wordwork script:


#+BEGIN_SRC
$(greenest "&s")
$(valleys "&O")
$(good "&j")
$(angels "&O")
$(palace "&n")
$(monarch "&n")
$(seraph "&n")
$(pinion "&n")
$(fabric "&n")
In the #greenest# of our #valleys#
    By #good# #angels# tenanted,
Once a fair and stately #palace#-
    Radiant #palace#- reared its head.
In the #monarch# Thought's dominion-
    It stood there!
Never #seraph# spread a #pinion#
    Over #fabric# half so fair!
#+END_SRC

(The thing is, the new form makes just as much sense as the old form. After
all, poems are odd. But then again, some like them.)

Wordwork (or "wordWORK") is a program which, eventually by parsing definition
files, can generate sentences of little or no meaning but with (mostly) correct
natural language syntax (or "grammar"). The current version is 0.1. It is
released under the GPLv3+ license.

[[wordwork-0.1.tar.gz][DOWNLOAD!&large]]

Believing that scrambling is abluminal isn't asthenic.

This program has only been tested on GNU/Linux. It'll probably also work on
Whendoze and Mak.