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MetalSlimeHunt

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ATHE ENGLISHSPEAK ISARE NOWBEING CHINESEMANDARIN
« on: April 09, 2011, 02:30:27 pm »
I recently came across this analyzer, which claims to compare one's writing to that of famous writers using word choice and writing style. I think it's more than just a randomizer, but I'm not sure how it goes about selection.

An anti-religious rant I wrote on these very forums brought up Dan Brown of all people, where as an essay on oil usage gave me David Foster Wallace, and a short story about humans dying out gave me Arthur Clarke.
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Re: Whom do you write like?
« Reply #1 on: April 09, 2011, 02:33:38 pm »
David Foster Wallace, Kurt Vonnegut, Dan Brown. Never heard of the first two, would disagree with the latter.
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Re: Whom do you write like?
« Reply #2 on: April 09, 2011, 02:35:40 pm »
James Joyce With a School Project That was a letter to a Friend in Crisis and H.P. Lovecraft with a write up explaining the game I'm making for my programming class.

Quote from: Simmura McCrea on April 09, 2011, 02:33:38 pm
Kurt Vonnegut... Never heard of ...

Wut
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Re: Whom do you write like?
« Reply #3 on: April 09, 2011, 02:37:27 pm »
Quote from: Realmfighter on April 09, 2011, 02:35:40 pm
Quote from: Simmura McCrea on April 09, 2011, 02:33:38 pm
Kurt Vonnegut... Never heard of ...

Wut

How? :I

Meanwhile, I write like Stephen King and Kurt Vonnegut, apparently.
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Re: Whom do you write like?
« Reply #4 on: April 09, 2011, 02:38:17 pm »
James Joyce and Stephen King.
I don't know James but I write like Stephen King? Yeah, right :)
EDIT: I copied my entire recent posts page and I write like Shakespeare now!
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Re: Whom do you write like?
« Reply #5 on: April 09, 2011, 02:41:28 pm »
Quote from: Dutchling on April 09, 2011, 02:38:17 pm
EDIT: I copied my entire recent posts page and I write like Shakespeare now!
Well, obviously. Shakespeare straight made-up so many words that if you copy a sufficently varied wall of text it would probably always pick him.
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Re: Whom do you write like?
« Reply #6 on: April 09, 2011, 02:43:08 pm »
Quote from: Dutchling on April 09, 2011, 02:38:17 pm
EDIT: I copied my entire recent posts page and I write like Shakespeare now!

Did that and got Cory Doctorow
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Re: Whom do you write like?
« Reply #7 on: April 09, 2011, 02:44:34 pm »
Creative writing (laconic): Hemingway.
Creative writing (older style): Lovecraft.
Posting here: Cory Doctorow >__________>
Mafia post: Edgar Allen Poe.

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Re: Whom do you write like?
« Reply #8 on: April 09, 2011, 02:45:13 pm »
I pasted in my last good story, and got Rudyard Kipling. Huh.
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Re: Whom do you write like?
« Reply #9 on: April 09, 2011, 02:46:11 pm »
Sorry, guys. I noticed something odd about this generator: it is random. I pasted one in, got Isaac Asimov, and cleared my cookies. I went back one page. I cleared my cookies. I pasted it in again, and I got Anne Rice. Successive attempts produced: Asimov again, Dan Brown, James Joyce, Asimov again, Arthur Clarke, and Ursula K. Le Guin. Hrm.
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Re: Whom do you write like?
« Reply #10 on: April 09, 2011, 02:47:00 pm »
''I write like
Vladimir Nabokov''

I guess Comrad Vlad was a troll because I just copy pasted 'lol' and 'hi' :P
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Re: Whom do you write like?
« Reply #11 on: April 09, 2011, 02:50:26 pm »
Quote from: Barbarossa the Seal God on April 09, 2011, 02:46:11 pm
Sorry, guys. I noticed something odd about this generator: it is random. I pasted one in, got Isaac Asimov, and cleared my cookies. I went back one page. I cleared my cookies. I pasted it in again, and I got Anne Rice. Successive attempts produced: Asimov again, Dan Brown, James Joyce, Asimov again, Arthur Clarke, and Ursula K. Le Guin. Hrm.
Except that I have pasted in two stories I wrote a year apart now and I got Rudyard Kipling both times. And then I pasted the same story in three more times to try to simulate this random choice, and I got it again.

It might be harder for it to analyze some times of writings than others.

Now to see what it says about my forum posts...
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Iron mixed with oxygen as per the laws of chemistry and chance /
A shape was roughly human, it was only roughly human /
Apparition eyes / Apparition eyes / Knock, apparition, knock / Eyes, apparition eyes /

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Re: Whom do you write like?
« Reply #12 on: April 09, 2011, 02:50:49 pm »
My Mafia flavour: Ray Bradbury. Haven't read a book by him yet.
Essay: Chuck Palahniuk. Never heard of him.
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Re: Whom do you write like?
« Reply #13 on: April 09, 2011, 02:51:09 pm »
Quote from: Barbarossa the Seal God on April 09, 2011, 02:46:11 pm
Sorry, guys. I noticed something odd about this generator: it is random. I pasted one in, got Isaac Asimov, and cleared my cookies. I went back one page. I cleared my cookies. I pasted it in again, and I got Anne Rice. Successive attempts produced: Asimov again, Dan Brown, James Joyce, Asimov again, Arthur Clarke, and Ursula K. Le Guin. Hrm.

Yeah, but those authors all have a similar writing style (assuming Dubliners-Joyce, rather than his pomo stuff).  I'm wondering if it's not "random" so much as that it sticks you in one of a few "classes" of writers.


Quote from: lordnincompoop on April 09, 2011, 02:50:49 pm
My Mafia flavour: Ray Bradbury. Haven't read a book by him yet.
Essay: Chuck Palahniuk. Never heard of him.

Fight Club.
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Re: Whom do you write like?
« Reply #14 on: April 09, 2011, 02:53:55 pm »
Vaguely argumentative posts got me Tolkien. I don't know if I'd consider that a good thing or not.
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