Homework help requested (not what you think!)

[Chris Angelico]

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 11:55 PM, Neil Cerutti <neilc at norwich.edu> wrote:
> On 2013-07-17, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 11:20 PM, Neil Cerutti <neilc at norwich.edu> wrote:
>>> Markov chains are an advanced technique you could introduce, but
>>> you'd need a huge list of names broken into syllables from
>>> somewhere.
>>
>> You could use names broken into letters... or skip the notion
>> of names and just generate words. Lists of words are easy to
>> come by (eg /usr/share/dict/words on many Linux systems), so
>> you can have some fun without much effort.
>
> That's true. Something like syllables should emerge from markov
> chains of letters pretty well, depending on how long the the
> chain is.

I might have to hunt down my old Dissociated Press implementations,
they were fun fun fun.

ChrisA