Polygen plugin
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Bug Description
Polygen looks fun:
Description: generator of random sentences from grammar definitions
PolyGen is a program for generating random sentences 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 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?
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 =:)
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