I Write Like...

[MoMoNoMo]

This web site is kind of fun -- www.iwl.me (http://www.iwl.me) -- you paste in a sample of your writing and it tells you which famous (or not-so-famous) author your writing style most resembles.

I don't know how reliable it is, though; I tried it several times with different bits of text and got David Foster Wallace, Chuck Pahlaniuk, Agatha Christie and Stephen King.

Then, just for fun, I typed in this sentence: "The big brown fox jumped slowly over the recumbent zebra."

The result? James Joyce. :rolleyes:

[Zat0pek]

The conclusion to a recent client memo produced David Foster Wallace.

Great. I write like a depressed novelist who hung himself when he was the same age I am.

Better than writing like Edgar Allen Poe, I suppose.

[Zen Miler]

A PM to Joe Lanzalotto produced... David Foster Wallace.

[MoMoNoMo]

Yeah, it produces some strange results. I stuck in a chunk of text from Hunter S. Thompson and got Stephen King. I stuck in some Stephen King and got (again) David Foster Wallace. I put in some David Foster Wallace and got James Fenimore Cooper. Finally, when I put in a bit of James Fenimore Cooper I got ...

James Fenimore Cooper.

Ah well, for what it's worth...

[Zen Miler]

I put in some David Foster Wallace and got James Fenimore Cooper.

It did the same thing for me.

Michael Jackson's Beat It lyrics produced...William Gibson.

[homeless]

Please someone get King99 to do this!!!!!!!

It'll say "you write like not one soul from the past".

[homeless]

I used my "soccer in the U.S. rant". David Foster Wallace for me too, as I suspected.

I dig him, so I'll take it.

[MoMoNoMo]

great idea, homeless! king's "prose" would doubtless cause the site to self-destruct.

(i won't say anything about getting patti to try this with a prime example of pattispeak... )

just kidding, patti!

[MoMoNoMo]

maybe the site is run by the estate of david foster wallace... :cool:

[homeless]

PS- I just hid all my ropes from myself.

[homeless]

I'm about to plug this King99 gem in, predicting EE Cummings or Kerouac:

"Joe what were the guy you keep referring to, CAREER numbers

If they do not look better than his individual year standings, I would be surprised, you are skewing the data

I have said for consistency sake

That if you are going to be in without hitting ANY benchmarks ANY and it is not position specific, i.e catcher, or short, that you had to dominate a category Jim Brown like in nature, Kiner did that

he did, 7 years in a row worth. No one else has.

Give me two career numbers on the guy you are referring to, and I will try to get who it is without looking it up, and why he would be in, or should not be.

believe me it is more fun to get them without looking it up for me., I am twisted that way."

[herr]

I pasted in the second paragraph from my new book and got: David Foster Wallace

I pasted in the third paragraph and got: Dan Brown

I pasted in the fourth paragraph and got: David Foster Wallace

The fifth paragraph produced: Isaac Azimov

The Next: Isaac Azimov

The Next: Isaac Azimov



I don't know if this is good or bad...

[homeless]

King's rant came back D.F.W.

Indeed may be a family run site.

[herr]

I'm about to plug this King99 gem in, predicting EE Cummings or Kerouac:

"Joe what were the guy you keep referring to, CAREER numbers

If they do not look better than his individual year standings, I would be surprised, you are skewing the data

I have said for consistency sake

That if you are going to be in without hitting ANY benchmarks ANY and it is not position specific, i.e catcher, or short, that you had to dominate a category Jim Brown like in nature, Kiner did that

he did, 7 years in a row worth. No one else has.

Give me two career numbers on the guy you are referring to, and I will try to get who it is without looking it up, and why he would be in, or should not be.

believe me it is more fun to get them without looking it up for me., I am twisted that way."

I say: T.S. Eliot

[homeless]

I say: T.S. Eliot

Yeah. Good thought.

[MoMoNoMo]

yeah, there's something distinctly poetic about king's writing when you break it up that way, and if you shut down your brain and let your mind wander... post-modern? pre-modern? pre-pre-pre-modern?

JK, King!!

[homeless]

yeah, there's something distinctly poetic about king's writing when you break it up that way, and if you shut down your brain and let your mind wander... post-modern? pre-modern? pre-pre-pre-modern?

JK, King!!

Pre-historic?

[herr]

yeah, there's something distinctly poetic about king's writing when you break it up that way, and if you shut down your brain and let your mind wander... post-modern? pre-modern? pre-pre-pre-modern?

JK, King!!

King transcends epochs. He is meta-epochal.

btw-- King actually breaks his posts up that way, it wasn't homeless. King has an almost physical or graphical style of writing. The words are only a tiny fraction of what is being communicated in a post

[jaygray]

Every word for King-er has meta-meta-meaning. King's English!

My most recent burqa post came up as D.F.W. I'm not really impressed with the algorithm.

[herr]

Every word for King-er has meta-meta-meaning. King's English!

:D high dyestat

[MoMoNoMo]

yeah, jaygray, it must rely way too heavily on basics like word and sentence length, maybe even ratio of adverbs (-ly words) to nouns or something, without any of the subtleties that make language the living, breathing creature that she are.

[MoMoNoMo]

btw, i just plugged my last post into the site and, you guessed it, it came up Dallas Fort Worth ... D.F.W.

[jaygray]

It would be interesting to try variations like (I'm theoretically at work):

1) writing only or mostly anglo-saxon words vs. flowery latinate words. That should come up Hemingway vs. I dunno any hack who doesn't know concision.
2) just swear words. Carlin?
3) complete gibberish
4) just numbers and/or formulas (bet Asimov)
5) Beatles lyrics
6) Obama vs. Bush speeches
7) Palin (ick!)

You get the picture. Say again, I'm not expecting much out of this puppy.

[homeless]

Great thoughts Jaygray!

[patti]

I sent in some of moi's book..

Issac Asimov!

[MoMoNoMo]

Good stuff, patti!! (Was it the chapter on astronomy?) ;)

[patti]

NOOOOOOO..but it may seem that moi's life is Science Fiction!

LOL!!!!

I sent in the first three paragraphs of the "Be Nice To Patti Campaign" when I was working in the Hospital just before running...why I started.

My Beauty came up as Chuck Palahniuk. "I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears."

[patti]

The Young Lad came up as Harry Harrison....Harry Harrison? Had to look both him and Chuck...well seems like Science Fiction runs in the family!!!

Harry wrote the book...The Stainless Steel Rat. and Make Room...the movie Solvent Green was based on it...Remember that movie...eeewwwww! Talk about recycling....

[MoMoNoMo]

jaygray, this was meant as a reply on the apparently defunct ken-chris thread (but, mods, HAS NOTHING TO DO with their argument):

jaygray, if i may offer one bit of advice, since you've decided to proffer an apology, be sure it doesn't end up blowing up into a destructive rehashing of the sensitive issues. make a quick, sincere-sounding apology, offer a handshake, disengage quickly. don't look back.

FWIW.

[jaygray]

Yeah, this is what I need to rehearse...walking away if it goes south.

Patti, Palahniuk is the author or the screenwriter (or both) who gave us Fight Club, a fav of mine. Oops, I just broke the first rule.

[patti]

rule?

[wineturtle]

David Foster Wallace also.
I had to look him up and at first glance at his Wiki photo I thought it was one of the actors from the TV series Leverage, Christain Kane.

[jaygray]

"The first rule of Fight Club is you do not talk about Fight Club"

There, broke it again ;)

[patti]

Well, MooMoo, I sent in a copy of a story I wrote for the Harriers Newsletter (when we had the running club...Mark Twain..! LOLOL!

[patti]

This is fun!!!

Thank ...NoMo

[patti]

pattispeak..got any?

[wayne b]

I pasted in the first half of paragraph 2 of the DEclaration of Independence, and got James Fenimore Cooper. Right era, so maybe not too bad.

And the BTW part of my most recent post in the Patti thread yielded Stephen King. How's that for a result boys and ghouls?

[MoMoNoMo]

Mark Twain! Wish I could have gotten him to pop up.

[homeless]

Mark Twain! Wish I could have gotten him to pop up.

In my Top 5 of all time. Adore him.

[patti]

"The first rule of Fight Club is you do not talk about Fight Club"

There, broke it again ;)

LOL!!

No, no, silly, you didn't break the first rule the second time....YOU broke rule number 2!

you rule breaker you!

Yes, That's right...I loved that movie....(Brad helped alot). Ed Norton was good too.

YES!!!
LOL

[xcworldchamp]

H.P. Lovecraft using a term paper I wrote for a history class

Edgar Allen Poe using something I wrote for socoiology.

[jaygray]

Here are the results of my overnight QA testing:

1) feeding only Anglo-saxon words and simple sentences, hoping it would show up as Hemingway (it didn't).
2) feeding only flowery latinate words that any hack writer would say (David Foster Wallace).
3) feeding only numbers with punctuation (Stephen King).
4) feeding complete gibberish (James Joyce -- this seemed right).
5) Beatles lyrics (You've Got to Hide Your Love Away) (Ray Bradbury).
6) Only swear words (hoping for George Carlin, but got Stephen King. This is like variation 1, if you think about it).
7) Obama's inauguration speech (H.P. Lovecraft)
9) George W. Bush's second inauguration speech (H.P. Lovecraft again. This is wrong).
10) A Sarah Palin bleg from facebook (David Foster Wallace -- so she's like me. Ick!)
11) JAVA computer code (Dan Brown).
12) Two thousand zeroes in a row (Neil Gaiman)
and finally
13) pi out to 10,000 digits (L. Frank Baum).

[herr]

I put in the intro to Ralph W. Emerson's essay "Nature". Result: Jonathan Swift

:rolleyes:

[wineturtle]

pattispeak..got any?
Speaking of pattispeak the Welcome Abroad is for newcomers we need a Pattispeak like pattiism greeting for returning family like Bison Hurdler.

[MoMoNoMo]

Well, it turns out the guy who invented this site is a Russian!! Wonder how good his English is. (Something tells me he's no David Foster Wallace)... ;)


http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2010/0719/I-Write-Like-David-Foster-Wallace?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+feeds%2Ftop+%28Christian+Science+Monitor+|+Top+Stories%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

[Dyenimator]

It might have something to do with the subject matter. I pasted one of my papers on a Soviet topic and got Orwell, another one on St. Peters in Rome and got Dan Brown, ...

[MoMoNoMo]

Here are the results of my overnight QA testing:

1) feeding only Anglo-saxon words and simple sentences, hoping it would show up as Hemingway (it didn't).
2) feeding only flowery latinate words that any hack writer would say (David Foster Wallace).
3) feeding only numbers with punctuation (Stephen King).
4) feeding complete gibberish (James Joyce -- this seemed right).
5) Beatles lyrics (You've Got to Hide Your Love Away) (Ray Bradbury).
6) Only swear words (hoping for George Carlin, but got Stephen King. This is like variation 1, if you think about it).
7) Obama's inauguration speech (H.P. Lovecraft)
9) George W. Bush's second inauguration speech (H.P. Lovecraft again. This is wrong).
10) A Sarah Palin bleg from facebook (David Foster Wallace -- so she's like me. Ick!)
11) JAVA computer code (Dan Brown).
12) Two thousand zeroes in a row (Neil Gaiman)
and finally
13) pi out to 10,000 digits (L. Frank Baum).


Good stuff, jaygray!

[homeless]

10) A Sarah Palin bleg from facebook (David Foster Wallace -- so she's like me.

Surprised Shakespeare didn't come up. :rolleyes:

[KenA55]

Sent in 7 paragraphs of text submitted to a local news reporter last week as background info on a story she was doing on me and my herd of livestock-

DFW

[phantomtofu]

My only post involved in the recent drama on the PG resulted in H.P. Lovecraft.

An email to my staff of even younger teenagers at Nielsen's Frozen Custard sounds like Cory Doctorow.

My Rhetorical Analysis of MLK's "Letter to Birmingham Jail" from the beginning of this semester's writing class resulted in, again, H.P. Lovecraft.

I should probably go look up this Lovecraft guy, as I have no idea who he is.

Edit: A random 3-paragraph excerpt from Doctorow's "Little Brother" resulted in Doctorow, so the analyses are likely fairly accurate.

[Equinox2100]

Threw a couple blog posts of mine in and got Shakespeare

[wineturtle]

I should probably go look up this Lovecraft guy, as I have no idea who he is.

I love the interwebs!!!
You look up HPLovecraft it leads you to references in Blue Oyster Cult songs which lead to Sandy Pearlmans eulogy of Ellie Greenwich which takes us to
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzhbGaCwBzs

and I`m sure if we continue we will find a link to a story about a 100 slot jukebox filled with 100 copies of Be my Baby.

plus rep to the first one who tells me the owner of said jukebox:D