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Program to create nonsense text?

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  • 29-08-2002 6:17pm
    #1
    Hobbes
    Registered Users Posts: 21,264 ✭✭✭✭


    Anyone who's seen prop newspapers (like in Planet Hollywood) will know what I mean.

    In the paper they normally have the first paragraph saying something normal then the rest is just all randomly generated sentances (I guess from a dictionary).

    I want to do this... I can make the program myself but I'd thought I'd be lazy and see if anyone knows of one around already? :)


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    #2
    reitoei
    Registered Users Posts: 109 ✭✭reitoei


    Get a dictionary file and write a program that will spew out random words read from it. You could do it in a few minutes with VB or javascript.


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    Talliesin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,314 ✭✭✭Talliesin


    One traditional way of "greeking" text like this is to use the pseudo-latin "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet." repeatedly for as long as necessary.


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