An english mnemonic generator

Have you ever seen any of those clever guys who are able to recite endless series of digits of number Pi? Sometimes they do it with mnemonics : sentences where each word is the same length as an according digit of Pi number: “How I wish I could calculate pi.”. (3.141592) The tonnes of mnemonics like that do exist (see piphilology). Now you can do the trick: senseless poetry is a lot of easy to remember than digits. But the question is how on earth someone was able to write such sentences?

I can suggest you the solution: mnemonic generator. Just allow this simple toy to crunch your series of digits and it might provide you a suitable mnemonic, as that one: “Now I have a child condemned to always think” (3.14159265).

How does it works? Wow, it’s so simple. Let’s assume a table exists which for each couple of words lists the words that can plausibly follow them. It makes the trick: for each next position we can choose the word of required length. A bit tiresomly for a human, but easy for a machine: they never stops thinking until get a profit.

With sentence generator you can try to do it on your own choosing next word from a variety of prompted ones. Do you have other requirements instead of lengths of the words? You can write a quirk phrase: “She saw someone standing silently.” Or an acronym: “We Are The Cruel Hands.” (for “WATCH”). Or you can even write something sensible. I hope it gives you a chance to get the bridge between English as a language and English as a part of your personality. Enjoy the puzzle :).

This toy, EnWiz uses a vocabulary more than 85000 words that forms 4000000 trigrams. But you can try your own set, getting the sources of EnWiz here.

…but if someone asked me “how far is it going to lead us?”, I would answer: “as far as Trurl’s Electronic Bard in famouse novel of Stanislaw Lem does”.