Rewrite quotes in "alien" dialects
Github repository here
This project is spun off of an earlier one, "Babel" that generates alien language words based on a rule set. The words resemble Wookie, Klingon, Vulcan, Romulan and Mando'a language vocabulary from Star Wars and Star Trek. The words created might actually be words in those languages - but for this program they are created randomly. This version is based on the previous NeoTrinkey version.
When started the program goes into a loop where a Carl Sagan quote (from the "sagan" file) is selected and printed, and each unique word is assigned one of the generated words, then the quote is displayed "translated" into the alien dialect. The progam then pauses for 20 seconds, then one of the five languages is chosen from random and a new quote is displayed.
NOTE: this absolutely not a real translation, just a fun exercise in generating alien text.
FILES:
- polyglot.py - program code
- code.py
- metadata.json
- polyglot.bmp - Fruit Jam icon
- sagan - set of Carl Sagan quotes. Feel free to replace quotes with any words of wisdom you choose.
OUTPUT:
English
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without
it we go nowhere. Carl Sagan
Wookie
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OWOUUUW AORA HUW AOHA UROUH OWOAAAW AHAAUAR HUR HOR ORUOUAW RUAOUW
OUWA WUR OAHO OHOUAAW OWUOAOR OWUOAUR RAOOH
To use, copy all the files to a Polyglot directory in the apps/ directory on your Fruit Jam. You'll find a Polyglot icon in the listed apps - click on that and you'll start seeing different Sagan quotes in English and rendered in a pseudo-Alien language text.
This page ("Polyglot" screen saver for Fruit Jam) was last updated on January 16, 2026.