Gerald Schlabach forwarded a message about The Bad Writing Contest.
> The Bad Writing Contest attempts to locate the ugliest, most
> stylistically awful passage found in a scholarly book or article
> published in the last few years.
This may be one of the fields where the days of human success are
numbered. IBM beat Gasparov in chess. TRULY BAD WRITING may be
the next field where machines will prove more skillful and
efficient than mere humans. Of course the rules of the contest demand
that the piece be sincere, non-ironic. But how can you tell?
Particularly if the author is a machine? Anyway, take a look at the
wonderful nonsense generator at
http://www.cs.monash.edu.au/links/fun.html
then choose: Postmodernism
The author of the program says this (clickable from the bottom of
the article generated):
The essay you have probably just seen is completely
meaningless and was randomly generated by the Postmodernism
Generator. To generate another essay, follow this link.
The Postmodernism Generator was written by Andrew C. Bulhak,
using the Dada Engine, a system for generating random text
from recursive grammars.
More detailed technical information may be found in Monash
University Department of Computer Science Technical Report
96/264: "On the Simulation of Postmodernism and Mental
Debility Using Recursive Transition Networks".
j-p takala
Jukka-Pekka.Takala@Helsinki.Fi