Automation

[Chris Angelico]

On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 8:54 PM, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On 19/11/2013 09:26, Chris Angelico wrote:
>>
>>
>> It couldn't figure out "Absytrytewh", "picsbeliud", or
>> "hnasoa/tw.nartswdbvweos/utrtek:p./il". That's not a bad result. (And
>> as a human, I'm guessing that the second one isn't an English word -
>> maybe it's Scots?) Here's the code:
>>
>
> I sense another letter to your Minister for Education regarding the teaching
> of Geography.  Fancy not recognising a well known UK place name when it's
> put right in front of you.  And Scots indeed, my mum will be turning in her
> grave :)

Oh, I recognized Aberystwyth (though I can't spell it without the help
of a search engine), it was the second I wasn't sure about. (Though
Ian was right - I was working with a limited dictionary, which is why
it didn't pick that one up.) I guessed Scots for the second one
because it didn't look Welsh and it seemed plausible to get a
mostly-English paragraph with one Welsh name and one Scots word.
Wrong, but hopefully not so implausibly wrong as to cause gyration of
the encephalographically-challenged.

Anyway, we Aussies know more about your geography than you know about
ours, I reckon. Which of these is not a real place: Parramatta,
Warrnambool, Cerinabbin, Mordialloc? No fair Googling them, see if you
can call it. I've been to three of the above places, the other one
came up in a fantasy name generator.

Okay, maybe that's not exactly fair, but I'd still be curious to know
how many of you know Aussie place names :)

ChrisA