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Meaningful Nonsense: How I generate sentences

I’m coding a system in JavaScript that generates sentences of “meaningful nonsense”. Here are some examples.

I’ve been browsing through wikipedia articles and academic papers for ideas, as well as copying down words that come up here and there and strike me as suitable. I was excited about this when I first got it working but I am not sure if I will use it in the final version of the diagrams because I think often it’s more interesting if the words and ideas are a bit scattered. I’m continuing to add more sentence structures and more rules for increasingly complex outputs and to create opportunities to uncover deeper meanings.

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