Who do you write like?

Jstas
Jstas Posts: 14,808
edited July 2010 in The Clubhouse
We all write. It's in our posts, our emails, our text messages and so on. Some of us are eloquent and others like to put on the heir of eloquence. Still others are crass and basic and even still, others are lazy and take shortcuts. Whether you a grammar **** of a "foenetic" speller, we all have a style.

This cool little website analyzes your style and compares it to famous authors. Then it'll tell you who your writing style most resembles. So, are you closer to Stephen King or H.G. Wells? Do you have the grammatical skills of Frasier Crane or Elmo?

Find out! Just clip a copy of your writing and paste it in the box, click analyze and see!

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Story of CNN about it: http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/07/20/i.write.like.authors.website/index.html?hpt=Sbin
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  • cnh
    cnh Posts: 13,284
    edited July 2010
    So I write like Dan Brown...but I don't get paid like him and few people read me? I really was amused by the analysis since I could have written in a totally different style. I was not trying to imitate Brown at all. I just threw three amusing paragraphs together and that's what the ROBOT said!

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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited July 2010
    I made two entries. One was an information thread on cleaning up Snap, Crackle & Pop on LPs.

    In this thread I write like Dan Brown.

    The second thread was a how to and results of bi-amping my 1.2TLs.

    In this thread I write like Cory Doctorow.

    Who the hell is Cory Doctorow?

    I'm googling him now!

    EDIT; just read up on Doctorow and my reactions was :eek::rolleyes::mad:
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  • cnh
    cnh Posts: 13,284
    edited July 2010
    I suspect that we all write like a limited number of writers in this data base. The program must have a few--not MANY parameters. Because how else could Joe's information thread about LPs and my spontaneous short about an obscure doctor being taken to a mental hospital in a carriage unknowingly default to the same author?

    Or should I say 'Cory'?? lol

    It's a fun exercise in any case!

    cnh
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  • zombie boy 2000
    zombie boy 2000 Posts: 6,641
    edited July 2010
    James Joyce. That is all.
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  • billbillw
    billbillw Posts: 6,726
    edited July 2010
    I entered a few different lengthy posts. Most of the time, it came back and said Cory Doctorow. (never heard of him)

    http://www.amazon.com/Cory-Doctorow/e/B001I9RSKC/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1279642089&sr=1-1
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited July 2010
    billbillw wrote: »
    I entered a few different lengthy posts. Most of the time, it came back and said Cory Doctorow. (never heard of him)

    http://www.amazon.com/Cory-Doctorow/e/B001I9RSKC/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1279642089&sr=1-1

    Read some of the links on the first page of a google search. He's not a person I would like emulate.
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,808
    edited July 2010
    cnh wrote: »
    I suspect that we all write like a limited number of writers in this data base. The program must have a few--not MANY parameters. Because how else could Joe's information thread about LPs and my spontaneous short about an obscure doctor being taken to a mental hospital in a carriage unknowingly default to the same author?

    Or should I say 'Cory'?? lol

    It's a fun exercise in any case!

    cnh

    I think you're over analyzing.

    Especially for Club Polk and the butchering that "passes" for the English language around here.
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  • billbillw
    billbillw Posts: 6,726
    edited July 2010
    hearingimpared wrote: »
    Read some of the links on the first page of a google search. He's not a person I would like emulate.

    Oh common, he's a SciFi writer. Fits right in here with our frequent discussions of cable upgrades and turntable tweaks ;)
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  • Willow
    Willow Posts: 10,999
    edited July 2010
    billbillw wrote: »
    I entered a few different lengthy posts. Most of the time, it came back and said Cory Doctorow. (never heard of him)

    http://www.amazon.com/Cory-Doctorow/e/B001I9RSKC/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1279642089&sr=1-1

    Same here, took some of my stuff, put it up there keeps coming back as him, I even took randon paragraphs, I used the op's post and I also used Mike Lemanaco (sp) description of a ovie they all came back as Cory
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  • cstmar01
    cstmar01 Posts: 4,424
    edited July 2010
    David Foster Wallace and Mr King.
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited July 2010
    billbillw wrote: »
    Oh common, he's a SciFi writer. Fits right in here with our frequent discussions of cable upgrades and turntable tweaks ;)

    I knew that was coming LOL! However I don't like his activist style.
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited July 2010
    I pasted a couple of my blog posts on there and got Douglas Adams both times.

    I'll take that.
    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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  • fatchowmein
    fatchowmein Posts: 2,637
    edited July 2010
    I pasted one of my movie reviews and it came up H.P. Lovecraft.

    I pasted one of my technical analysis and it came up Kurt Vonnegut.


    Jstas, you've made my day. I'm off to write the great American novel. I'll include you in the acknowledgement.
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  • concealer404
    concealer404 Posts: 7,440
    edited July 2010
    Dan Brown
    I don't read the newsssspaperssss because dey aaaallllllllll...... have ugly print.

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  • Bubinga99
    Bubinga99 Posts: 283
    edited July 2010
    I pasted in some Cory Doctorow and it came back H. P. Lovecraft
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  • mrbigbluelight
    mrbigbluelight Posts: 9,696
    edited July 2010
    It says I write like Cfrizz. :eek:
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  • Willow
    Willow Posts: 10,999
    edited July 2010
    mrbigbluelight wrote: »
    It says I write like Cfrizz. :eek:

    What did you write? 200wpc minimum?

    Gotta love our Cathy!
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  • Erik Tracy
    Erik Tracy Posts: 4,673
    edited July 2010
    5 times in a row: Stephen King....hmmmm.....

    H9: If you don't trust what you are hearing, then maybe you need to be less invested in a hobby which all the pleasure comes from listening to music.
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited July 2010
    mrbigbluelight wrote: »
    It says I write like Cfrizz. :eek:
    Willow wrote: »
    What did you write? 200wpc minimum?

    Gotta love our Cathy!

    Well in this case it would 200 wpm, words per minute!!! LOL!!!

    Cath, who love ya babe!!!
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited July 2010
    Mine was 800 miles round trip from South Philly to Medford MA, but I know there are lot of fellas here who've driven thousands of miles.
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  • ohskigod
    ohskigod Posts: 6,502
    edited July 2010
    David Foster Wallace? who the eff is that?
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited July 2010
    hearingimpared wrote: »
    Mine was 800 miles round trip from South Philly to Medford MA, but I know there are lot of fellas here who've driven thousands of miles.

    Wrong thread?

    (Also, woo, Medford! I'm from Everett, next town over :) )
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  • cfrizz
    cfrizz Posts: 13,415
    edited July 2010
    mrbigbluelight wrote: »
    It says I write like Cfrizz. :eek:
    Willow wrote: »
    What did you write? 200wpc minimum?

    Gotta love our Cathy!
    hearingimpared wrote: »
    Well in this case it would 200 wpm, words per minute!!! LOL!!!

    Cath, who love ya babe!!!

    :eek::D:D:D:D:D You guys are CRAZY!!!! It told me I write like Kurt Vonegut. Now I gotta go check out his writing to see if it's true!

    Ummm Telly Savalas Joe?:D ROTFLMAO!
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  • billbillw
    billbillw Posts: 6,726
    edited July 2010
    ohskigod wrote: »
    David Foster Wallace? who the eff is that?

    You're kidding, right? Never heard of Infinite Jest ?
    For rig details, see my profile. Nothing here anymore...
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited July 2010
    bobman1235 wrote: »
    Wrong thread?

    (Also, woo, Medford! I'm from Everett, next town over :) )

    DUH!!!! **** aleat!!!:eek::D
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  • John30_30
    John30_30 Posts: 1,024
    edited July 2010
    Jstas wrote: »
    I think you're over analyzing.

    Especially for Club Polk and the butchering that "passes" for the English language around here.

    Some of us are eloquent and others like to put on the heir of eloquence.

    -=busted, John=- :D

    Okay, I'm gonna find that turtle anecdote I wrote for Joe and see if I'm actually He-man Melville. I ain't a-gonna be no Her-man, nossir.
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited July 2010
    hearingimpared wrote: »
    Mine was 800 miles round trip from South Philly to Medford MA, but I know there are lot of fellas here who've driven thousands of miles.
    bobman1235 wrote: »
    Wrong thread?

    (Also, woo, Medford! I'm from Everett, next town over :) )

    I had just joined the forum a few weeks before our trip to Medford . . . too bad we could have hooked up.
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  • SolidSqual
    SolidSqual Posts: 5,218
    edited July 2010
    My creative writing is evidently like David Foster Wallace and my liberal law school hippy style is like Cory Doctorow. One guy killed himself after battling depression for nearly 50 years and the other guy is a raging left wing activist moron. What's this program trying to tell me?
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  • John30_30
    John30_30 Posts: 1,024
    edited July 2010
    SolidSqual wrote: »
    My creative writing is evidently like David Foster Wallace and my liberal law school hippy style is like Cory Doctorow. One guy killed himself after battling depression for nearly 50 years and the other guy is a raging left wing activist moron. What's this program telling me?

    No man, DFW was only in his 30's when he died, maybe early 40's. He was supposed to be the next great American writer, as in Nobel Literature some day.
    Personally, I can't stand his stuff. He writes, scratch that, wrote like the Grateful Dead, all noodling around for hours. :eek: Not my cuppa.

    But what the program is telling you is it was coded by a Russian programmer, who may or may not have a clue about literature.
    Frankly, most coders don't.

    Stupid thing thinks I write like Stephen King. I wish.

    haha. Thinks this post reads like Ian Fleming. That bastage.
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  • Norm Apter
    Norm Apter Posts: 1,036
    edited July 2010
    billbillw wrote: »
    You're kidding, right? Never heard of Infinite Jest ?

    I have that one on the bookshelf, but haven't gotten around to reading it yet.

    981 pages of text plus an additional 104 pages of end notes (388)...and this for a work of fiction. I've heard that one should keep two bookmarks: one of the text, one for the notes. Not quite ready to take the plunge yet...
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