The valspeak is a variant of American English spoken in California.
Let me rewrite that correctly:
The valspeak is ya know, like, a variant of American English, fer shure, spoken in California.
In 1986, someone asks on the net.sources newsgroup the source of a small software to make this kind of conversion.
To celebrate the new year, I repackaged it.
2022-01-23 update: I’ve repackaged it again, this time using a Git repository instead of a Mercurial one. FreeBSD port currently not available.
Test it
http://tools51.nasqueron.org/gadgets/motd-variations
Clone it
git clone https://github.com/dereckson/valspeak.git
Understand it
Valleyspeak on the English Wikipedia
Decompress it
valspeak-1.0.tar.gz
Install it
make
sudo cp valspeak /usr/local/bin/
Historically, a FreeBSD package was available, but devio.us seems currently down:
pkg_add -r http://dereckson.devio.us/software/valspeak/valspeak-1.0.tbz # This is a FreeBSD i386 package [1].
This post is dedicated to Matma Rex.
[1] If you prefer a FreeBSD port instead of a package, it will be misc/valspeak and it’s currently available here.