POLYGEN(1)						      General Commands Manual							POLYGEN(1)

NAME

       Polygen	- Polygen is a powerful gadget for creating spontaneous sentences according to a grammar definition, that is following custom syn-
       tactical and lexical rules.

SYNOPSIS

       polygen [options] sources

DESCRIPTION

       Polygen is a tool for creating incidental sentences according to a grammar definition, that is following  custom  syntactical  and  lexical
       rules.

       Formally,  it  is  an interpreter of a language itself designed to define languages, where to interpret means executing a source program in
       real time and eventually outputting its result.

       Here a source program is a grammar definition, the execution consists in the exploration of such grammar by selecting a random path and the
       result is the sentence built on the way.

       Though  PolyGen	is  quite a seriuos piece of software then, what else would be more noble for it than being used as a parody tool for lin-
       guistical habits, stereotypes and trends of this foolish era?

       Principles of parody are focusing a ridiculous topic and eventually abstracting its rules and schemes (here in terms of a  grammar  defini-
       tion) by which reproducing it through the variatio device.

       And randomization is perfect at this purpose thanks to its purely asemantic behaviour =:)

OPTIONS

       Please run polygen without parameters for an explanation on how to run polygen.

SEE ALSO

       polygen-data(6), http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/scigen/

AUTHOR

       Manta

       This manpage has been generated after instructions given by Enrico Zini <enrico@debian.org>.

								September 15, 2004							POLYGEN(1)