tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon May 08 12:26:48 1995
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Re: Choosing a Klingon name
>Date: Sat, 6 May 1995 19:51:11 -0400
>Originator: [email protected]
>From: "Kevin A. Geiselman, Knight Errant" <[email protected]>
>Anyway, I have a program lying around for the UNIX that is a good name
>generator. What you do is use a file of names and the program goes
>through and calculates where the frequency of things are. It then prints
>out a file of things that are similar. Put in a list of Roman names and
>out comes a list of Roman type names. Put in Elvish, out comes elvish.
>It even works with text. Put in Shakespeare and you get gibberish out,
>but it's Shakesperean gibberish. The only problem is that the list of
>Klingon names would be a touch small and so would not give out a decent
>output.
>If there is any interest I'll see if I can load it off the disk I have
>and upload it to ftp.kli.org. It's pretty big and I've only got a 2400
>bps modem. I'm not even sure it still works.
If it's Richard Kennaway's names2 program, don't bother. I think I have a
more recent version, and more likely we can just point to his server of it
(if I can remember where it is).
>Lt.Cmdr. Kordite
>Executive Officer, IKV Dark Justice, Klingon Assault Group
~mark