NAME

       Polygen  -  Polygen  is  a  program  for  creating  deep  nonsense  according to a grammar
       definition, that is following custom syntactical and lexical rules.

SYNOPSIS

       polygen [options] sources

DESCRIPTION

       Polygen is a powerful system for generating spontaneous 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 seriuos 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 =:)

OPTIONS

       Please run polygen without parameters for an explanation on how to run polygen.

SEE ALSO

       polygen-data(6), http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/scigen/

AUTHOR

       Manta

       This   manpage   has   been   generated   after   instructions   given   by   Enrico  Zini
       <enrico@debian.org>.

                                        September 15, 2004                             POLYGEN(1)