This was originally a project for a data structures and algorithms course.
Input a reasonably long chunk of text and press Babble to get your result. The aim of this simple program is to produce an output that makes semi-grammatical sense at first glance, but doesn't make much logical sense when you actually try reading it. More text is always better; use at least a paragraph for best results. Song lyrics can often produce amusing results.
The "Babbliness" factor determines how closely the output will match the input. Output with a Babbliness value of 5 will not resemble the input very much at all and will probably not make much grammatical sense, while output with a Babbliness value of 1 will make good grammatical sense but possibly be nearly identical to the input text.
Sample inputs: Green Eggs and Ham Goldilocks and the Three Bears Still Alive Declaration of Independence Gospel of Luke Romeo and Juliet
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. ??? And for the rectitude of our Governments: For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. ??? And for the public good. He has refused to pass other Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our emigration and settlement here. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their Hands. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been deaf to the People at large for their exercise; the State of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to Laws, the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be totally dissolved; and that