MOTH: They have
been at a great feast of languages, and
stolen the scraps.
COSTARD: O! they have lived long on the alms-basket of words. I marvel thy master hath not eaten thee for a word; for thou art not so long by the head as honorificabilitudinitatibus. William Shakespeare; Love's Labour's Lost
Cobralingus is a transforming engine for language. A word-snake. Each of the following example pieces takes a borrowed text as a starting point. This inlet text is then processed by the device, to create another text entirely, known as the outlet text.
The process itself involves sending the chosen text (or signal) through various filtering gates, each of which has a specific effect upon the language. The signal can pass through any number of gates, along many differing pathways. Each pathway results in a unique outlet text.
Each filtering gate is designed to produce a certain considered, or unconsidered, response in the writer, or in the writing machine. Specific gates, and the order in which the signal passes through them, can be chosen either by conscious decision, or by some random process, or else by a combination of the two. The effect of each gate is to produce an interim text, which is then passed along the pathway, to the next gate, until finally the outlet text is reached.
Sometimes, these interim texts will be fully laid out for the reader to study. Other times, certain parts of the process will be hidden from view. However, a Cobralingus flow diagram of the full language-pathway will always be shown.
The Cobralingus system creates new text out of old. Please be warned: occasionally, the random nature of the process may well produce 'unreadable' interim texts. However, the overriding instruction is that all inlet texts, and all outlet texts, must be of individual interest. That is to say, all inlets and outlets shall be considered as stand-alone narratives.
Instructions complete. We hope you enjoy using the Cobralingus filtering device.
COSTARD: O! they have lived long on the alms-basket of words. I marvel thy master hath not eaten thee for a word; for thou art not so long by the head as honorificabilitudinitatibus. William Shakespeare; Love's Labour's Lost
Cobralingus is a transforming engine for language. A word-snake. Each of the following example pieces takes a borrowed text as a starting point. This inlet text is then processed by the device, to create another text entirely, known as the outlet text.
The process itself involves sending the chosen text (or signal) through various filtering gates, each of which has a specific effect upon the language. The signal can pass through any number of gates, along many differing pathways. Each pathway results in a unique outlet text.
Each filtering gate is designed to produce a certain considered, or unconsidered, response in the writer, or in the writing machine. Specific gates, and the order in which the signal passes through them, can be chosen either by conscious decision, or by some random process, or else by a combination of the two. The effect of each gate is to produce an interim text, which is then passed along the pathway, to the next gate, until finally the outlet text is reached.
Sometimes, these interim texts will be fully laid out for the reader to study. Other times, certain parts of the process will be hidden from view. However, a Cobralingus flow diagram of the full language-pathway will always be shown.
The Cobralingus system creates new text out of old. Please be warned: occasionally, the random nature of the process may well produce 'unreadable' interim texts. However, the overriding instruction is that all inlet texts, and all outlet texts, must be of individual interest. That is to say, all inlets and outlets shall be considered as stand-alone narratives.
Instructions complete. We hope you enjoy using the Cobralingus filtering device.
