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50,000 Meows by @hugovk #50
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Well, I guess somebody finally had to meow. |
Cat's out of the bag. What will @cpressey think?!!! The output is far more interested than I would have suspected. |
I like it! If you will permit me a moment of insufferable pedantry, however, I will note that it is only infrequently that I have heard a cat make a sound that I would be inclined to onomatopoeically transliterate as "meow". Quite often, the utterance is something more like "raa" or "mehr" where the vowel is slightly nasalized or perhaps glottalized in a way for which I'm sure even the International Phonetic Alphabet does not possess a fully accurate notation. My own feline companion, in fact, has been known to, on occasion, make a bleating sound quite remarkably comparable to that of a sheep. And as for text produced by cats, that is another story entirely. (And the moral of this comment is: do not wonder what @cpressey thinks, lest he inform you of it) |
@cpressey Well, it'd be a doddle to repurpose it for "raa" or "mehr", or even a random utterance. |
@hugovk Ehhh don't mind me, I was just exercising my internal pseud generator. I do like it though. It's like a carrier wave without a signal. Or maybe, a silhouette. @MichaelPaulukonis that. looks. fun. |
Ooooh @hugovk can you do one with "no"? |
Here's an article about this and #116: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/12/moby-dick-in-50000-meows-and-other-tales-that-computers-tell/383340/ |
A commenter on The Atlantic points out The Meow Wars:
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Do one for dogs too |
@RandomGuy0400 I made 50,000 Woofs last year! |
50,000 Meows
The rules say:
Well, someone had better create 50,000 meows just to get it out of the way.
But this isn't just "meow" 50,000 times. meow.py replaces all words with a meow of the same length, keeping punctuation.
Usage
Output
Here's the above rule put through meow.py:
Here's the output of running meow.py on some Project Gutenberg (Purrject Mewtenberg):
Extracts
Here's part of Moby Dick:
And here's part the Jungle Book with line-by-line translations:
Finally, here's meow.py put through meow.py.
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