POLYGEN(1)

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🎀 NAME 🎀

Polygen — Polygen is a system for generating fortuitous nonsense according to a grammar definition, that is following custom syntactical and lexical rules. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

polygen [options] sources

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Polygen is an advanced gadget 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 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 💅

Okay so no cap: the options section is literally just this one instruction. Please run polygen without parameters for an explanation on how to run polygen. That's the whole vibe check. 🫶

🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

• polygen-data(6) — yes, section 6, iykyk. 🧚
• http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/scigen/ — go check it out, bestie. ✨

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Manta — author. 👑

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

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Mwah 💋 that's the whole POLYGEN(1) page, dated September 15, 2004. Byeee bestie, stay iconic! 🌟