On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 8:54 PM, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > On 19/11/2013 09:26, Chris Angelico wrote: >> >> >> It couldn't figure out "Absytrytewh", "picsbeliud", or >> "hnasoa/tw.nartswdbvweos/utrtek:p./il". That's not a bad result. (And >> as a human, I'm guessing that the second one isn't an English word - >> maybe it's Scots?) Here's the code: >> > > I sense another letter to your Minister for Education regarding the teaching > of Geography. Fancy not recognising a well known UK place name when it's > put right in front of you. And Scots indeed, my mum will be turning in her > grave :)
Oh, I recognized Aberystwyth (though I can't spell it without the help of a search engine), it was the second I wasn't sure about. (Though Ian was right - I was working with a limited dictionary, which is why it didn't pick that one up.) I guessed Scots for the second one because it didn't look Welsh and it seemed plausible to get a mostly-English paragraph with one Welsh name and one Scots word. Wrong, but hopefully not so implausibly wrong as to cause gyration of the encephalographically-challenged. Anyway, we Aussies know more about your geography than you know about ours, I reckon. Which of these is not a real place: Parramatta, Warrnambool, Cerinabbin, Mordialloc? No fair Googling them, see if you can call it. I've been to three of the above places, the other one came up in a fantasy name generator. Okay, maybe that's not exactly fair, but I'd still be curious to know how many of you know Aussie place names :) ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
