Syllabic division of words

[DunbarX at aol.com]

I have been lurking on this thread, so I may have missed it. Wouldn't it be 
simple to download a dictionary, which has syllables parsed already, 
usually with a dash or some other delimiter char, and even has the accents?

A few lines of script and you have a de-syllabilized text file.

Craig Newman

In a message dated 8/20/09 3:50:28 PM, randall at randallreetz.com writes:


> This should be a standard function in any xtalk environment.  Computing, 
> like any system is a dance between things and actions brought upon those 
> things.  Nouns must be identified and parameterized before verbs can act on 
> them.  Text is the abstraction we use to do this mapping.  If the computer 
> can't fluidly address the chunking that makes up every level of the 
> grammatical hierarchy within our language, the things we can do with this tool are 
> vastly restricted.
> 
> randall
>