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Originally Posted by Muzamba

[*]While the results are more structurally-realistic than they

were in the first build, I think the table content is causing a

lot of the output to sound rather silly and implausible. The

primary culprit is Table4. The nouns really need to be toned

down considerably. Relatively few of the words in this list

would have been used in naming locations during the era that

most American cities were founded.

I pretty much created the content for Table4 by copy-pasting

from a list of the most common nouns in the english language.

I intend to edit the list at some point, but wanted to get this

version working before I did that. So, this issue was already

known and expected.

Originally Posted by Muzamba

[*]Some sort of tagging system still needs to be applied in

order to better match concepts. This is especially true of

Tables1 and 2 combining with Table3. For instance, the more

descriptive prefixes like "Blue" and "Cold" would normally be

followed by a noun from Table4, but not a name or proper noun

from Table3.

I duplicated the contents in Tables1 and 2 just to get more

options. What I see is that I need to keep them separate, but

have the option of using Table1 twice for the same city name..

113 as opposed to 123... there is nothing wrong with using the

same table twice, but I wouuld make sure to not duplicate the

same word.. (There won't be a Fort Fort Smith)

Originally Posted by Muzamba

[*]Even though they're not very common, there should probably

still be a second title suffix table (Table7?) for cities like

"Salt Lake City", "Thief River Falls" and "Hot Springs

Village".

I think this is already able to happen... but I will make

sure..

Originally Posted by Muzamba

[*]Adding a second set of title prefixes, however, was a smart

move. I forgot about places like "North Little Rock", "New Port

Richey" and "Fort St. John". (However, they still need to be

grouped appropriately with tags.)

What I think I am going to do is keep it with 2 seperate lists.

Table1 would be "Title" prefixes (Port, Fort, etc...) and

Table2 would be "Descriptive" prefixes (Little, Blue, etc...)

and there should be the ability for them

Originally Posted by Muzamba

[*]This isn't a big deal if it's too inconvenient or

impractical, but would it be possible to allow the user to

control the frequencies of table combinations? (I've always

been of the mindset that the more the user can customize, the

better.)

I plan on adding this in later. Right now, you still can make changes by editing the files, but I would to add this ability right into the program.

Originally Posted by Muzamba

[*]Finally, on a personal note, is there any way you code the

new GUI to accept Windows colors? I'm sure this won't be a

problem for most, but because of my Windows settings, the list

output shows up as white text on a white background on my

computer. I can see them when they're highlighted, but not

otherwise. (I have my colors inverted due to a vision problem.)

I should be able to come up with something, even if it is only the ability to change the colors.

Originally Posted by Muzamba

One thing that I think would really help, once all the

programming has been completed, would be to compile statistics

on place names. Some of the numbers still seem a little off to

me, but I'd rather use accurate frequencies than to speculate

on the numbers myself.

This could be a chore. The only thing I can think of would be to get a list of every city/village in the United States and then search for how often each part shows up ? But then you also have cities that are named after something from another language, like an indian name for instance.


Thanks for your input, I probably wouldn't have even gotten this far if not for your suggestions and enthusiastic responses..