1. Voodoo Word An interactive artwork by Mike Larsson

2. Voodoo Word Hardware Interactive model Linguistic element

3. Hardware

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5. Microprocessor BASIC Stamp from Parallax Board of Education kit

6. Hardware

7. Interactive model

8. The linguistic element Simplest option: randomly select a canned phrase from a database Slightly more linguistically informed option: select from a database of templates that can grow (to some degree) dynamically Future work (?): corpus-based approaches, semantically informed template system

9. The linguistic element I hope your noun gets verbed by a noun. I hope your adjective noun gets adverb verbed by an adjective noun. I hope your adverb adjective noun gets adverb adverb verbed by an adjective, adjective noun. Etc. Infinite intensifiers: really, really, really, really… end of sentence!!!!!!