A speech writer designed to prevent plagiarism

speech-writer.php

<?php

if ($argc < 2) {
    echo "Please enter a number of words for the speech\n";
    exit(1);
}


$dictionary = explode(PHP_EOL, `cat /usr/share/dict/words`);

$speech = [];
$max_words = (int)$argv[1];
for($word_count = 1; $word_count <= $max_words; $word_count++) {
    $word = $dictionary[random_int(0, count($dictionary))];
    // Try to make sentences around 6 words long
    $speech[] = $word . (random_int(0, 5) < 1 ? '.' : '');
}

echo implode(' ', $speech) . PHP_EOL;