Oh man I love the platypus & the lynx; the ocelot & the baboon; the three-toed sloth & even the Riemann zeta function€, not to mention green.

[pteichman]

👍

[pteichman]

Mr. Phileas Fogg lived, in 1872, at No. 7, Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, the 🏠 in which Sheridan died in 1814. He was 1⃣ of the most noticeable members of the Reform Club, though he seemed always to
avoid attracting attention; an enigmatical personage, about whom little was known, except that he was 🅰 polished 👨 of the world. People said that he resembled Byron--at least that his ❓ was Byronic; but he was 🅰 bearded, tranquil Byron, who might live 🔛 🅰 Ⓜ years without growing old.

[pteichman]

MOBY DICK; OR THE 🐳: A TRANSLATION

Here's a first pass: improving the output is going to take a more nuanced mapping of words to emoji. This code doesn't special case anything, but it uses the WordNet lemmatizer to expand each emoji tag into additional words.

If you're viewing it with a browser and things don't look amazing, try another browser: I had trouble with Chrome but Firefox and Safari were fine.

[pteichman]

Oh! And the code is https://github.com/pteichman/NaNoGenMo-2014/tree/the-whale too.

[hugovk]

Certainly more readable than the crowdsourced Emoji Dick:

(This is the third NaNoGenMo project I've seen so far reworking Moby Dick.)

[pteichman]

Nice, thanks for the shot of Emoji Dick--I'd forgotten all about it until a friend pointed it out last night, and I don't think I'd ever seen their results. The things that brought me to Moby Dick were great emoji in the title and its iconic first line, and I've kept the code unaware of any source material. I've tried a few different Project Gutenberg sources with good results.

An excellent bit of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, usually my go-to for this sort of thing:

How doth the little 🐊
Improve his shining tail,
And pour the waters of the Nile
On every golden scale!

How cheerfully he seems to grin,
How neatly spread his claws,
And welcome little 🐟 in
With gently 😁 jaws!