Re: VMs: Word Endings

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

> At least this kind of process could be tested out on a few languages 
> without too much difficulty: we might well be surprised by their 
> statistics. :-)

One nice-looking syllable friendly version works like this:-
(a) insert ! after any vowel followed by a consonant
(b) delete all spaces
(c) replace all !'s with spaces

In simple Perl, [*] this kind of space-transposition cipher could be 
achieved (for English) by a sequence of simple regexp's:-
        s/[aeiou][b-df-hj-np-tv-z]/$1!$2/ig
        s/ //g
        s/!/ /g

All Perl gurus on-list, please feel free to kindly step forward and convert 
this to a single regexp. :-)

I wonder what the word stats (of space-transposed text produced by this) 
would look like (as compared with Zipf's Law)... anyone want to try this out?

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling.....

[*] ...as there's always a better and more complicated way of doing 
anything in Perl. :-9 


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