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Yeah, the name generator is pretty basic. There must be an algorithm/library out there that can generate english sounding names. Perhaps a markov chain? I've always wanted an excuse to mess around with markov chains...

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This is my quick contribution: http://jsfiddle.net/7nvAg/

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http://jsfiddle.net/7nvAg/1/ is a bit cleaner

EDIT: avoid double vowels / double consonants: http://jsfiddle.net/7nvAg/2

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A cool way to do this would be to scan words in a book and find out the occurrence of common structures like "au" and weight it.

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Yeah, markov chaining by having paths from one letter to the next that are weighted by subsequent occurrences in a dictionary would be pretty cool.

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Your jsfiddle is still an improvement over the current setup though. Any chance of a pull request?

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Awesome stuff, Thanks! Are you on twitter?

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