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Subject: Re: Homework help requested (not what you think!)
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On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 11:20 PM, Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> wrote:
> Markov chains are an advanced technique you could introduce, but
> you'd need a huge list of names broken into syllables from
> somewhere.

You could use names broken into letters... or skip the notion of names
and just generate words. Lists of words are easy to come by (eg
/usr/share/dict/words on many Linux systems), so you can have some fun
without much effort.

ChrisA