kerravonsen | Language La La

Had an interesting conversation in the bus on the way home; which is remarkable in itself, considering that normally one does not have conversations with complete strangers in busses. However, there was this friendly talkative guy who asked me about the book I was reading ("The Beacon at Alexandria" by Gillian Bradshaw, my favourite ever historical novel) and that wandered over to books and language and drew in the lady sitting next to him too, who had apparently lived near Jack Keruack (I must read some of his stuff some day) and was generally a rather pleasant rambling conversation.

Earlier today I actually found a linguistics program that real linguists use, pc-kimmo, named after this Finnish linguist called Kimmo. I do recall I'd actually come across this program ages and ages ago, but had put it in the too-hard basket for some reason, maybe because I wasn't running Linux and didn't have a C compiler, or something. Anyway, the pc-kimmo program does really the next stage of language stuff: putting things together in meaningful words and parts of speech; and another program on the site, pc-parse, gets into parsing sentences. However, both of them require a lexicon as well as a set of word-rules and grammar rules, so I guess maybe there could be some use for my morpheme-generator after all, to generate files suitable for input to pc-kimmo, or at least aid in such. Well, I don't think I should do it right now, but it's something to keep in mind. Worth downloading the software and the manual, anyway.