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Principia Discordia => Two vast and trunkless legs of stone => Topic started by: NotPublished on March 08, 2010, 10:19:24 AM

Title: The PC Translator
Post by: NotPublished on March 08, 2010, 10:19:24 AM
POLITICALLY CORRECT-ness



Well I think something like this could pick up, anyhow I was thinking if it would be a good idea to create a PC translator, for those who want to translate sentences into its PC equivalent. As fucking stupid as it sounds, I think it can have some funny results.

Think this is something worth going ahead with?
Title: Re: The PC Translator
Post by: Iason Ouabache on March 09, 2010, 08:30:26 AM
No.  :|
Title: Re: The PC Translator
Post by: NotPublished on March 09, 2010, 08:36:28 AM
I'll come up with a good idea eventually!

*has a fatal attraction to generators XD*
Title: Re: The PC Translator
Post by: President Television on March 09, 2010, 09:03:24 PM
If you do this I will run hardcore punk and gangsta rap lyrics through it and plaster them all over my city.
Title: Re: The PC Translator
Post by: Doktor Howl on March 09, 2010, 09:04:26 PM
Yes.

I want to run my nastier rants through them.
Title: Re: The PC Translator
Post by: Dimocritus on March 09, 2010, 09:06:52 PM
If you build it, they will come.

I also liked the idea you had about a random insult generator.
Title: Re: The PC Translator
Post by: NotPublished on March 09, 2010, 09:10:25 PM
Yeah this one is something that is easily done, mostly what needs to be worked on is just finding the PC equiv to words / sentences. I could probably just use around 16 ~ 20 lines of code.

I'll see if I can find a PC dictionary out there

@Dimo - Oh yeah I forgot about that one! I am flighty with ideas ... that one will take a bit further work for what I had in mind... I wanna pick up some more stuff to do for fun but I took up a new proj recently at work; so I'm hoping when that one starts to cool down I can corrupt the internet further.

(I still want to do Random Weirdness By Mail thing - that one is a bit bigger; hoping by next month I can start properly)
Title: Re: The PC Translator
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on March 09, 2010, 09:13:15 PM
Quote from: dimo on March 09, 2010, 09:06:52 PM
If you build it, they will come.

I also liked the idea you had about a random insult generator.

My friend Steve made a random swear generator a few years ago.
Title: Re: The PC Translator
Post by: NotPublished on March 10, 2010, 08:34:21 AM
Anyone know any good resources?

So far I am using - http://www.funny2.com/dictionary.htm (http://www.funny2.com/dictionary.htm)
Title: Re: The PC Translator
Post by: NotPublished on March 10, 2010, 10:04:44 AM
Any who,

http://notpublished.ulmb.com/pc/ (http://notpublished.ulmb.com/pc/)

Only looks for the words that have been used in the funny2 list

Just a bug with some words; eg

car wash worker is ment to become vehicle-appearance specialist

but it will come out as

vehicle-appearance physician having concentrated on a particular field of tax shelters

... should I just keep it like that?

Anyhow if nayone has any words pass them over :D

If you can format it as the following
[word] : [description]

*seperate by a colon*

eg

actor : metamorphosing being, possessing great wealth
---
Its easier to update the db if it is in that format, if not I can parse it (if its in bulk)

eta: i've missed ll the sime words i'll get around to them later :)