(La)k(t)-märk(e)t(ill)

“Couldn’t we do some kind of sentence constructor, with a limited vocabulary of safe words?”

Before we could give it any serious thought, their own project manager interrupted, “That won’t work. We tried it for KA-Worlds. We spent several weeks building a UI that used pop-downs to construct sentences, and only had completely harmless words – the standard parts of grammar and safe nouns like cars, animals, and objects in the world. We thought it was the perfect solution, until we set our first 14-year old boy down in front of it. Within minutes he’d created the following sentence:”

“I want to stick my long-necked Giraffe up your fluffy white bunny.”