Tue Sep 04 2012 at 1:25:48
A couple of years ago, I noticed that you can find something floating around the Internet called a travesty generator. This is a piece of software that makes word salad out of whatever text you give it. The software chops up sentences and paragraphs to form new streams of words, without worrying at all about grammar, punctuation, or proper capitalization. Generally the programs accept input of unlimited length to produce randomized output of a specified length. This can result in a high degree of repetition if the input text is shorter than the output text. The result is unreadable nonsense: a travesty. But there is sometimes something helpful in letting that happen to text you care about, because it gives you a feeling of tone, disconnected from more intentional meaning. I m told the process has something to do with Markov chains but I ve never studied those in detail although I have made note that the same technique here used to destructive effect on coh