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[Alan Gauld]

> What i need is a program that translates english in-to
> this completly made up language this person has.

Language translation isone of those topics that sounds 
like it should be straightforward but is actually very hard.

Illustration:

A translator was built (back in the 70s?) to translate 
between English and Russian. To tet it they fed in the 
phrase "Out of sight, out of mind" and then fed the 
result back in again to see what came back out. 
The result was "Invisible, idiot"...

I'm not sure how true that story is but it illustrates the point well.

If you do want a basic approach you can base it around 
a set of dictionaries, but the tricky bit is handling word endings 
and context/grammar etc.

HTH,

Alan G.