Thessaloniki calling! (no, not london)

It’s been a while since my last post. I’ve been away from home and i didn’t have the time to write a post so i’m back once again with a little proggy!

I’m from thessaloniki, a city in northen Greece. All greeks know about certain ‘mistakes’ we make when we talk and some strange words we use. So i decided to make a thessalonikia (the way we speak in thessaloniki) translator! It’s not complete yet but it’s under development! Since i am going to use regural expressions i decided to write it in perl. So, here it goes!

#!/usr/bin/perl

while() {
  s/thessaloniki/saloniki/g;
  s/thessalonikios/salonikios/g;
  s/thessalonikia/salonikia/g;

  s/ o aderfos/ to karntasi/g;
  s/ tou aderfou/ tou karntasiou/g;
  s/ stou aderfou/ stou karntasiou/g;
  s/ ton aderfo/ to karntasi/g;
  s/ ston aderfo/ sto karntasi/g;
  s/ aderfe/ karntasi/g;
  s/ aderfos/ karntasi/g;

  s/ mou (\w*eis)/ me \1/g;
  s/ mou (\w*ei)/ me \1/g;
  s/ mou (\w*w)/ me \1/g;
  s/ sou (\w*eis)/ se \1/g;
  s/ sou (\w*ei)/ se \1/g;
  s/ sou (\w*w)/ se \1/g;

  if (int(rand(10))) {
   $letter = “”;
  } else {
   $letter = “l”;
  }

  s/la/${letter}la/;

  if (int(rand(20))) {
    $letter = “”;
  } else {
   $letter = “l”;
  }

  s/lo/${letter}lo/;
  s/le/${letter}le/;

  s/\.\s*Sovara\?/Plaka me kaneis?/g;
  s/\.\s*sovara\?/plaka me kaneis?/g;

  s/(\.\s*)Afou (.*)\./\1\u\2 afou./g;
  s/(\.\s*)afou (.*)\./\1\u\2 afou./g;

  print;
}

If you want to add something here leave a comment!

Update: Changed placement of afou and made a funny substitution (plaka me kaneis).

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