The following uses pretty much the original code, but dispenses with the naughty use of a module:

while(<DATA>){@x=split;for(@x){$o=/[.,]$/?2:1;$m=substr$_,0,1,'';
$e=substr$_,-$o,$o,'';$m.=substr$_,rand(length),1,''while$_;$_="$m$e"}
print"@x\n"}

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__DATA__
Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is pa
+ved with melting snowballs.
Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesi
+tate to make 10 ways to do something.
And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and s
+pace, because that's exactly how much difference there is.
Randal said it would be tough to do in sed. He didn't say he didn't un
+derstand sed. Randal understands sed quite well. Which is why he uses
+ Perl.
As usual, I'm overstating the case to knock a few neurons loose, but t
+he truth is usually somewhere in the muddle, uh, middle.
Of course, I reserve the right to make wholly stupid changes to Perl i
+f I think they improve the language.

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Update: remove a few more chars, and some more (Thanks Bart), and some more (ditto)

Perl is Huffman encoded by design.

In reply to Re: Fun with words (Golf?) by GrandFather
in thread Fun with words (Golf?) by McDarren

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