{"id":804,"date":"2011-10-19T21:25:52","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T02:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/?p=804"},"modified":"2011-10-19T21:26:17","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T02:26:17","slug":"804","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/19\/804\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Word Generator for Fictional Languages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am not into <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Constructed_language\">conlangs<\/a>. I find the idea interesting, but not enough to spend time on it. However, most of the stories I write are set in other worlds, where it&#8217;s useful to have a few words of a language the people there might speak, or at the very least, a way to come up with consistent-sounding names for characters.<\/p>\n<p>So I made this <a href=\"demonstrations.wolfram.com\/RandomWordGenerationForFictionalLanguages\/\">random word generator for fictional languages<\/a>. If you download the <a href=\"http:\/\/demonstrations.wolfram.com\/download-cdf-player.html\">free Player<\/a>, you can&#8230;play with it. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/demonstrations.wolfram.com\/RandomWordGenerationForFictionalLanguages\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/demonstrations.wolfram.com\/RandomWordGenerationForFictionalLanguages\/HTMLImages\/index.en\/popup_3.jpg\" alt=\"Random word generator for fictional languages\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It uses a very simple method to generate words. I told it what consonants and vowels it was allowed to use, and what patterns of consonants and vowels were allowed. Then it randomly generates a bunch of words. <\/p>\n<p>A high percentage of the results aren&#8217;t usable, either because they aren&#8217;t easy to pronounce or spell, or because they just don&#8217;t sound right. But it&#8217;s so fast to generate more that I haven&#8217;t gone back to create more specific rules.  <\/p>\n<p>How do you make up your fantasy names? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not into conlangs. I find the idea interesting, but not enough to spend time on it. However, most of the stories I write are set in other worlds, where it&#8217;s useful to have a few words of a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/19\/804\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}