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NAME

       Polygen  -  Polygen  is  an  innovative  system  for  generating aleatory nonsense according to a grammar
       definition, that is following custom syntactical and lexical rules.

SYNOPSIS

       polygen [options] sources

DESCRIPTION

       Polygen is an innovative program for bursting out stochastic 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 serious 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)