talkfilters(6)

🎀 NAME 🎀

okay so welcome to talkfilters(6), bestie — yes, the Games Manual one 💖 — and this is the page for the GNU talk filters. The lineup is literally: b1ff, brooklyn, chef, cockney, drawl, fudd, funetak, jethro, jive, kraut, pansy, pirate, postmodern, redneck, valspeak, warez — GNU talk filters, periodt. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

The whole synopsis vibe is:

filter [--version --help]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

The GNU Talkfilters are filter programs that convert ordinary English text into text that mimics a stereotyped or otherwise humorous dialect. Each program reads from standard input and writes to standard output. 🫶

Heads up, bestie: since the filters do word and substring substitution on the text they process, any word-wrap formatting of the original text will not be preserved. Use the wrap filter to word-wrap the output of a talk filter. 💅

Here’s the whole filter squad:

• austro — Austrian accent (Ahhhnold) 🇦🇹
• b1ff — B1FF of USENET yore 📼
• brooklyn — Brooklyn accent 🗽
• chef — Swedish Chef (from The Muppet Show) 🍳
• cockney — Londoner accent 🫖
• drawl — Southern drawl 🤠
• dubya — George "Dubya" Bush 🇺🇸
• fudd — Elmer Fudd (from the Looney Tunes cartoons) 🐰
• funetak — Thick Asian accent
• jethro — Jethro from The Beverly Hillbillies
• jive — 1970s Jive 🕺
• kraut — German accent
• pansy — Effeminate male
• pirate — Pirate talk 🏴‍☠️
• postmodern — Postmodernist talk ("Feminazi")
• redneck — Country redneck
• valspeak — Valley talk
• warez — H4x0r code 👾

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

You might also wanna check out: wrap(1), less(1) ✨

👑 AUTHORS 👑

Shoutout to the absolute icons behind this: Edward Betts, Clement Cole, John Hagerman, Brand Hilton, Adam Hudd, Ian Johnston, Daniel V. Klein, Mark Lindner, Stephen K. Mulrine, Duane Paulson, Samuel Stoddard, Matt Welsh, David Whitten, et al. 🫶✨

Version 2.3 · 8 Dec 2003 · talkfilters(6) — mwah, go make your text iconic 💅💖