Undoubtedly Lewis Carroll used this engine while writing his stories about Alice. Those stories and poems definitely have a special place in my heart, and you have to admit that the language he uses is definitely innovative. Jabber seriously amused me for a while. “Jabber realises a linguistic chemistry with letters as atoms and words as molecules” is how the introduction page reads. What a great idea! I’m not much of a science person, but I can appreciate the comparison between language and science. Think of how instantly you are able to equate language, symbols, to concrete objects or ideas or feelings. That has to be some form of science, rapid computing. Jabber does nothing to really provoke anything completely profound or earth-shattering but it is a fun way to make up new words in combinations I would never begin to imagine. I found it to be representational of language! It could be almost satirical of how we place such a symbolic value to objects and ideas with the meaning of words. Words are only valuble to us because of their relation with what they represent. What if a desk was called a koiestre? Or a pen an estrami? Desk and pen would be the weird words and the other two would evoke an image of school or an office or wherever. Some combinations of letters and vowels are so significant while others, as in the Jabber engine, are combinations that are nonsense unless we assign them meaning. Just like good old Lewis meant when he said, “and the mome raths outgrabe”.