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VALSPEAK is a filter program that has been circulating around the Usenet.
It translates its standard input to Valley talk and sends it to the
standard output. Try invoking VALSPEAK without any arguments and type
the line:
I'll have a cheesburger with lettuce, tomato, pickles, and onions.
Better yet, take your favorite text file and run it through VALSPEAK.
If you have a letter to your mom called MOM.LTR, enter the following:
VALSPEAK <MOM.LTR >MOM.VAL
The Valley talk output goes to MOM.VAL.
The program is written in C (actually output from the Unix program lex so
code is turgid). It makes calls to rand() to randomly select cute phrases
to interject into the output stream, so a given input may not always yield
the same output from run to run. Have fun!