Not quite sure how to take this ...

I took six consecutive parts of my story, 'Ida The Spy', in 5, 5, 6, 5, 5, & 5 paragraph chunks ( The six paragraph part was because it involves Racinne, and black magic.

The first two parts involve Shannon, her TS victim, and it came up with Stephen King & David Foster Wallace. While the part is not very lighthearted, I think King is way too dark for his 5 paragraphs. Wallace, I dunno.

The third, 6 paragraph part came up H P Lovecraft, which fits rather well, I guess.

The next parts came after I switched to Holly's arrival at the bank and meeting the security guard, all very light stuff, no magic in it, and I got Mary Shelley, Stephen King, & Cory Doctorow, 2 horror writers, and one Science fiction author, none of which fit their 5 paragraphs, in my opinion.

But, from looking at others 'I write like' findings, I see a preponderance of science fiction and horror writers.
Just for the heck of it, I took different 5 paragraph sets out of the same part of my story, and by shifting one paragraph forward or back, went form H P Lovecraft to Dan Bbrown, or elsewhere to Stephanie Meyer ( vampires), Annie Rice, ( Vampires), and Arthur Clarke, none of whom come close to fitting the light-hearted sections I 'tested'

Oh well, it killed some time... but not me

Holly

It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.

Holly

Depending on which bit I put in ...

I get different authors:

One segment of The Reluctant Bridesmaid came out as Stephen King and another came out Cory Doctorow.

Most of the rest came out as: J. D Salinger

On the other hand, Animal Farm came out as Oscar Wilde

I think maybe I should be disturbed that all of them are male authors. *sighs*

Anne

A hoot!

This is seriously funny!

Depending on which of my stories I use, I write like Ursula K. Le Guin, Gertrude Stein, Cory Doctorow, Stephen King or William Gibson.

Further testing yields J.D. Salinger, Annie Rice, Douglas Adams, Arthur C Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Ian Fleming.

Dominant results: Arthur Clarke, followed by Cory Doctorow and Stephen King.

I can deal with that, but what it really says to me is that I'm not easily pigeonholed.

Abby

I write like

J.D. Salinger, according to my first chapter of my Green Arrow Retcon.

Who? Who? And, Eek!

As you know, I haven't written very much. Just a few real-life essays, and one piece of fiction. So far. None of them are very long, so I was able to paste whole stories into the writing-style analyzer.

My fiction piece apparently simulates Chuck Palahniuk. My non-fiction came up with different authors. One was Cory Doctorow. Another was Stephen King.

Eek?

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If a picture is worth 1000 words, this is at least part of my story.

How it works...

See my comment on the previous blog: http://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/forum/21635/i-write-like#comme...

Meanwhile, I fed it extracts from Charles Darwin's On The Origin of Species:

Preface, Intro, 14 chapters (16 segments total)
8 Edgar Allan Poe
7 H.P. Lovecraft
1 Jonathan Swift

For fun, I then fed it Near A Raven (a retelling of a certain Poe poem), and it decided that was Lovecraftian. The original poem it attributes to The Bard!

So why's it so inaccurate? As the author explains in the interview I linked to from the other thread, it's all an automated algorithm - and we all know from automatic translation software how inaccurate algorithms can be...

And thinking of online automatic translation:

What happens when an English phrase is translated (by computer) back and forth among five different languages? The authors of the Systran language translation software probably never intended this application of their program. Today's translation software is almost good enough to turn grammatically correct, slang-free text from one language into grammatically incorrect, barely readable approximations in another. But the software is not equipped for 10 consecutive translations of the same piece of text. The resulting half-English, half-foreign, and totally non sequitur response bears almost no resemblance to the original. Remember the old game of "Telephone"? Something is lost, and sometimes something is gained.

Introducing: MultiBabel.

Bike Resources

There are 10 kinds of people in the world - those who understand binary and those who don't...

As the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, then only left-handers are in their right mind!

Following up

Taking Laika's idea below, I fed the preface of "English How She Is Spoke" to Multi-Babel and got back:

A selection of an expert of dialogiert, clean the cleared Gallicisms and copies, lacking nevertheless with learn-I wish alive Brazilian Portuguese and of youth; and also with the people of other nations, this desire, of the knowledge to the Portuguese language.

We watch all ignition, the one that we could do, in sequence that we corrected, that demands, the part and the small activity in the course that divising in two distributes. In the first place it includes in the alphabetical order of the great name of the dictionary; and forty and three seconds where the conversation had adapted the usual exact details of the length.

Therefore we (the installation the cover, with skrupulÃ¶sen the precision, a great variety for the credit of copies with English Portuguese and the Idiomen; without of we who we make the individuals (like something of another one), for a literal translation almost to the repair; the translation for, than only, must be to have obtained the Portuguese students customary, or-another, the Idiome to speak approximately mentioned of very false.

We secondly increase this escape with a Phraseologie, in the first expert of the division and of some carÃ¡teres, the anecdotes, idiotisms, proverbi and in the second station of work one coin' Increase of the S. - in work of the way no affectionate ones, of that we used confering for this work; but the one that it published in outer Portugal or, everything almost transformed into the border a right of foreigner or a small determination with the national current in languages the both good alcohol of.

The end to be firm around the material of the blockade of this work of incompletezza and is derived to the lines of the deviation of the model of this corelessness; although he is limitless typesetter these diverse times of the defects clear the direction of the periods. Still it increases, of all this described argument of the work in the words of English the accent, of which it is not in the Portuguese the end that contains prosodical: the substantial message, than would want the English languages and the Portuguese who the end spoke correctly. Then we thought, little book (for the attention, than we wrote to him. and for its typesetter correction) which knows the meaning of learn-I wish alive of people in the value and especialy in youth, care we who particularly.

Well, it hardly made it much worse. :)

Hugs,
Erin

= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.

Well...

"Well, it hardly made it much worse. :)"

*Giggle!*

Actually, looking at it, I'm tempted to say it seems to have improved some parts.

As Mark Twain said, English As She Is Spoke could be neither explained by stupidity, nor willful parody. It required a mixture of stupidity, diligence, honesty of effort, and divine inspiration to achieve its level of awfulness.

The Great Blog Crossover Project

Someone should feed a chunk of ENGLISH AS SHE IS SPOKEN from Pippa's blog into it.
Maybe the dumb thing will blow up!
~~~hugs, Laika

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Well shit, I guess it really CAN happen here..,
.

Great Idea!

It came back H.P. Lovecraft. :)

Hugs,
Erin

= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.

I write like...

...Bonzi Cat!!!

Angharad (swoons)

Angharad

Golly! Gosh! Wow! Evidently,

Golly! Gosh! Wow!

Evidently, I write like Stephen King on The Green Fog and Stephenie Meyer with Home Alone!

I wish I had their money!

Hugs
Sue

Make up yer damn mind!

I entered four successive chapters from my story A CLOCKWORK FRUIT
into the thing and was told that I write like:

DOUGLAS ADAMS
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE
HP LOVECRAPT
and the ever popular ANNIE RICE
(I wonder if she knows Willie Shakespeare or Hank Fielding...)

I've gotten more accuracy, consistency and relevance out of fortune cookies...
~~~hugs, Laika

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Well shit, I guess it really CAN happen here..,
.

Annie Rice?

....She gets together with Ursula "Cubbie" LeGuin, Buddy Dostoyevsky and Harry "The Glider" Pinter for Bridge every Saturday afternoon. Anybody seen my meds?

Dio vi benedica tutti
Con grande amore e di affetto
Andrea Lena

To be alive is to be vulnerable. Madeleine L'Engle
Love, Andrea Lena

Me Too, Me Too

Well, feeling rather foolish I decided I'd submit large chunks (2 to 5 pages) from my Comdex stories. I must say I am rather flattered to be in such August (it's still August after all) company. Seems that depending on which portion of the story I submitted I came out as:

Either Ian Fleming (I was impressed) or
Steven King (Okay, but I don't like horror stories!) or
Gertrude Stein (What an eclectic Lady!) or
William Gibson (William who??) or
Arthur C. Clarke (A Spaced Adventure) or
David Foster Wallace (An Infanite Jest, like a dangling participle) or
Raymond Chandler (Wow, Phillip Marlow can invesitgate why wa all get
more than one author identified with us!(

Of course there is a simple solution, claim them all then point to the computer and say: It's not my fault, the compueter did it when something goes wrong.

Beth

Re: Annie Rice

The link to Annie Rice, actually leads to Anne Rice. Was that what you intended?

Regards,

Dave.

Not quite sure how to take this ...

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See earlier blog

According to Chapter 18 of Becoming Robin,

>> Annie Rice?

Writing Analysis

Okay, I tried avoiding it, but finally gave in