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Author:  TheRiov [ Wed Jul 21, 2010 12:15 am ]
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http://www.iwl.me/

Analyzes your writing style and supposedly compares it with other writers. I'm not sure how much I buy it, but for fun....

So far its given me:
William Gibson
Vladimir Nabokov (!) (admittedly I submitted a bit of sexy prose, but the writer of Lolita???? Really!?)
Steven King
Author:  Nevandal [ Wed Jul 21, 2010 3:09 am ]
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David Foster Wallace (me analyzing obama in hellfire)
Cory Doctorow (in numbuks thread about quake)
Vladimir Nabokov (in my Katana thread)


I'm not sure what this means.
Author:  Wwen [ Wed Jul 21, 2010 4:28 am ]
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Ugh, Steven King. At least it wasn't James Patterson or Dan Brown.
Author:  Noggel [ Wed Jul 21, 2010 5:04 am ]
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Wwen wrote:
Ugh, Steven King. At least it wasn't James Patterson or Dan Brown.


...

I got Dan Brown for one of my longest recent posts in the WoW forums. :( Then I get James Joyce as my very next similar author in the Wheel of Time thread. Color me confused.

I must say, I'm a bit skeptical of this if only for how fast it is. If I had to guess, I'd say that I have full support in software that claims to do this, but it probably has to be pretty extensively developed and take a lot longer in its analysis. I suppose I'm just guessing, though.

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edit: Quick ran through my post history in the name of rigor. The results:

William Gibson (MTG)
Dan Brown (g-20)
Corey Doctorow (Perez Hilton to jail)
Corey Doctorow (This Just In: /bye Natal /hello Kinect)
Corey Doctorow (Bye bye, Facebook!)
Stephen King (The 'god helmet' page 2)
David Foster Wallace (The 'god helmet' page 2)
Corey Doctorow (Cataclysm page 1)
Harry Harrison (Cataclysm page 2)

I then copy/pasted all of those 9 posts into one file and ran that through... and it indeed did give me Corey Doctorow. It's still a pretty wide spread, but I suppose it has some degree of consistency to it.
Author:  LadyKate [ Wed Jul 21, 2010 7:19 am ]
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Stephen King
David Foster Wallace
Margaret Atwood
Author:  Tolyn [ Wed Jul 21, 2010 7:28 am ]
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Wwen wrote:
Ugh, Steven King. At least it wasn't James Patterson or Dan Brown.


LOL. I write like Dan Brown. He wrote the Da Vinci Code. That was a decent book.
Author:  Khross [ Wed Jul 21, 2010 7:33 am ]
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TheRiov wrote:
Vladimir Nabokov (!) (admittedly I submitted a bit of sexy prose, but the writers of Lolita???? Really!?)
Quite frankly, your mastery of the English language is insufficient for that comparison. And, since you apparently have little understanding of Nabokov or his linguistic and literary skills, I find it rather ironic. As it stands, Lolita is the definitive American Romance; and it was written in English by Nabokov while he lived in the United States.

That said, the comparison mechanism is only keying in on the frequency of 10-15 words per sample set, as opposed to comparing morphological similarities in the language used. I would not put too much stock in anything.
Author:  Nevandal [ Wed Jul 21, 2010 7:50 am ]
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Might as well take a facebook personality quiz. ;)
Author:  TheRiov [ Wed Jul 21, 2010 7:52 am ]
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Wow. You managed to insult my writing skills--(based on no actual data other than what I post hastily, and somewhat carelessly, often from a mobile phone??)

You've not seen anything I've written with a significant degree of care to have any basis for that statement, and we don't all go out of our way to sound as pretentious and condecending as possible in everything we write. If you were as literate as you claim, you would understand that a good writer makes stylistic choices as to the words they use for effect, not because they know no other way.

I write the way I write here, because of a shared sense of style the board tends to adapt, not because I am incapable of writing in any other fashion.
Author:  LadyKate [ Wed Jul 21, 2010 7:58 am ]
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TheRiov wrote:
we don't all go out of our way to sound as pretentious and condecending as possible in everything we write.


I've just come to realize thats just the way Khross is...I really don't think he can help it. It is rather annoying though. Especially when he seems to comment on a thread solely for the purpose of sounding superior and brings nothing of value into the discussion....but just as many times, on the other hand, he does have something to say worth reading.

But I'm sure I have my incredibly annoying posting habits as well, just like everyone else here.
I like that we are all generally pretty forgiving of each others flaws around here.
Author:  Khross [ Wed Jul 21, 2010 8:12 am ]
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TheRiov wrote:
Wow.
This is a sentence fragment. If you want to be grammatically correct, you would have attached the expletive to the following sentence with a comma.
TheRiov wrote:
You managed to insult my writing skills--(based on no actual data other than what I post hastily, and somewhat carelessly, often from a mobile phone??)
This sentence contains an improper use of a dash and parentheses. The subordinate phrase should be set off using a comma.
TheRiov wrote:
You've not seen anything I've written with a significant degree of care to have any basis for that statement, and we don't all go out of our way to sound as pretentious and condecending as possible in everything we write.
You misspelled condescending. You've conjoined two ideas into a compound sentence that are tangentially related at best. Your choice of initial contraction is both non-standard and dated; it should be written "You haven't..."
TheRiov wrote:
If you were as literate as you claim, you would understand that a good writer makes stylistic choices as to the words they use for effect, not because they know no other way.
Now you're simply trying to make yourself sound smart. Unfortunately, your sentence is pedantic, cluttered with passive voice, and subject to faulty logic.
TheRiov wrote:
I write the way I write here, because of a shared sense of style the board tends to adapt, not because I am incapable of writing in any other fashion.
This sentence has a comma splice between "here" and "because". It also contains the bare assertion that the forum possesses a unique stylistic idiom.

All of that said, I simply noted that the comparison to Nabokov is ironic and that your mastery of the English language is insufficient for such a comparison. Indeed, it is appropriate to note that Cormack McCarthy is Nabokov's inferior in strict lexical terms. Likewise, I indicated that the comparison engine itself was using a small sample set and word frequency to make its determination, as opposed to any true morphological study of the text provided to it. So, if you want to be insulted, by all means throw that victim card down.
Author:  Vindicarre [ Wed Jul 21, 2010 8:18 am ]
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Image
Author:  LadyKate [ Wed Jul 21, 2010 8:27 am ]
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Hee hee.

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Author:  Vindicarre [ Wed Jul 21, 2010 8:31 am ]
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Hahahah!
Author:  TheRiov [ Wed Jul 21, 2010 8:34 am ]
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I'm sorry. You've convinced me Khross. Clearly there is dire need for rigorous adherence to the standard rules of grammar while posting throw away comments to a casual message board.

Obviously, my spelling is so bad that I should run a spellcheck before posting to avoid being incomprehensible.

It is now clear to me that Khross's superior intellect dwarfs even the most learned individuals on the board. I've given up my belief in a higher power so that I might worship at his feet.
Author:  Ladas [ Wed Jul 21, 2010 8:41 am ]
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Nice rebuttal LK... very funny!
Author:  Elmarnieh [ Wed Jul 21, 2010 8:43 am ]
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From a sampling of what I write in my D&D game:
In some of them I am writing as char to another (for example Eltide routinely writes like the bard).

Dan Brown
Ursula K. Le Guin
H. P. Lovecraft
Arthur Conan Doyle
William Shakespeare
Author:  Nitefox [ Wed Jul 21, 2010 8:50 am ]
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Mine said "dyslexic, retarded, blind, 4 year old with no hands".

So I've got that going for me.
Author:  Rynar [ Wed Jul 21, 2010 8:59 am ]
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I keep generating another Rhode Islander, H.P. Lovecraft, fairly consistently. Apparently I am Cthulhulicious.
Author:  Colphax [ Wed Jul 21, 2010 9:30 am ]
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I ran through all my longer posts on the Glade and got a lot of Cory Doctorow. Chuck Palaniuk, David Foster Wallace, Stephen King, James Joyce, and Dan Brown were my next highest. One-offs I was proud of: J. D. Salinger, Ursula K. LeGuin, Mario Puzo, Mark Twain, and William Gibson. Must hang my head in shame for the 2 hits I got for Stephenie Meyer :p
Author:  Vindicarre [ Wed Jul 21, 2010 9:39 am ]
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Nitefox wrote:
Mine said "dyslexic, retarded, blind, 4 year old with no hands".

So I've got that going for me.


Which is nice.
Author:  Müs [ Wed Jul 21, 2010 10:04 am ]
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I put in some of the fiction I've written, and I got back Chuck Palahniuk.

Which I thought was cool ;)
Author:  FarSky [ Wed Jul 21, 2010 10:32 am ]
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I put in my review of Alice in Wonderland, and got Lewis Carroll (and only Lewis Carrol). LOL.
Author:  FarSky [ Wed Jul 21, 2010 10:36 am ]
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Review of Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang netted me Cory Doctorow. Review of Watchmen and a few miniviews pegged me as David Foster Wallace. Several other miniviews and some more personal blog posts also came up with David Foster Wallace, so I guess that's the average for my results.
Author:  Hokanu [ Wed Jul 21, 2010 11:11 am ]
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Rynar wrote:
I keep generating another Rhode Islander, H.P. Lovecraft, fairly consistently. Apparently I am Cthulhulicious.

mmm.. Noodly appendages
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