https://github.com/spc476/NaNoGenMo-2018

My entry for the Nation Novel Generation Month 2018
https://github.com/spc476/NaNoGenMo-2018

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My entry for the Nation Novel Generation Month 2018

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/spc476/NaNoGenMo-2018
• Owner: spc476
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2018-11-10T03:01:33.000Z (about 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2018-11-10T07:32:54.000Z (about 6 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-02T05:11:12.652Z (3 months ago)
• Language: Lua
• Size: 257 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README
  • License: LICENSE

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                  The Valley Girl of Oz, Bjork Bjork Bjork

                          "Written" by Sean Conner.

                     Based upon _The Emerald City of Oz_

                              by L. Frank Baum.

  This is my 2018 entry for NaNoGenMo [1].  After many false attempts to

come up with a decent idea, I finally settled for this---take one of L.

Frank Baum's Oz books (the first one to exceed 50,000 words---for the

record, it's the 6th book in the series) and run it through a translator.

In this case, the translator doesn't convert the work into Kyrgyz and back

into English, but into Valleyspeak (you know, like, what Valley Girls, like,

speak?  Gag me with a spoon!).

  But I wanted to have some challenge to this, so I decided to convert the

text of the book into Valleyspeak, but the actual dialog in the book into

Swedish Chef (sorry Sweden!).  Trust me, it was less offensive than my first

choice, Jive.

  I converted the origial Valleyspeak and Swedish Chef translators to Lua,

as it would make it easier to combine the two using LPeg (which is one of

the strengths of LPeg---it's parsing expressions that can be combined) than

attempting to get it working with the original lex based code.

  The file 'chef.lua' is the standalone Swedish Chef translator, and

'valley.lua' is the standalone Valleyspeak translator, and 'run.lua'

combines the two into something that actually works.  Some testing reveals

that LPeg 1.0 will crash; until it's fixed, use of LPeg 0.12 is encouraged

for this code.

  Included are the original sources I have for the Valleyspeak and Swedish

Chef translators.

[1]	https://github.com/NaNoGenMo/2018