JABBER: The Jabberwocky Engine

"JABBER produces nonsense words that sound like English words, in the way that the portmanteau words from Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky sound like English words.

When a letter comes into contact with another letter or group of letters, a calculation occurs to determine whether they bond according to the likelihood that they would appear contiguously in the English lexicon. Clusters of letters accumulate to form words, which results in a dynamic nonsense word sound poem floating around on the screen with each iteration of the generator.

JABBER realises a linguistic chemistry with letters as atoms and words as molecules." -- from author's statement, Poems That GO

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Poems That Go

Published in Winter, 2004 by Poems That GO in Volume 15.

This copy was given to Megan Sapner Ankerson and Ingrid Ankerson in Spring 2019.

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http://www.poemsthatgo.com/gallery/winter2004/jabber/index.htm