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An online demo and a link to an informative video are here:

https://paralogical.dev/glish/

Input: South Korea has said it will resume propaganda broadcasts against North Korea for the first time in six years in response to Pyongyang's campaign of sending rubbish-filled balloons across the border.

Glish output: South kawrshk has said it will zoordz pran byerkstz genst North kawrshk for the first time in six years in spahns to yangz kayktn of sning brish-filled noorz skruh the derr.

Not very practical but a lot of fun.

More than a century ago, “words of one syllable” was a trend in publishing:

Robinson Crusoe in words of one syllable

https://archive.org/details/robinsoncrusoeindefo/page/8/mode...

Aesop's fables in words of one syllable

https://archive.org/details/aesopsfablesinwo00aeso/page/6/mo...

History of Japan in words of one syllable

https://archive.org/details/historyofjapanin00smit/page/n9/m...

parent tkgally 2 years ago

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