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arg-fallbackName="Case"/>
I write like - http://iwl.me/

I wrote some original 10 lines or so and got David Foster Wallace, then I pasted some parts of one of my papers and got Isaac Asimov. :p

Edit: Then I pasted one of the chapters of a Fantasy story I started writing a year ago, and got H.P. Lovecraft. :3
 
arg-fallbackName="Prolescum"/>
I pasted in three blog posts on different topics; one about regular king of nonsense, Goodscienceforyou from youtube, one on the American live action version of fist of the north star, and one on a false conspiracy...

Here they are in the above order...

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:lol:
 
arg-fallbackName="Inferno"/>
I got Dan Brown, Arthur Clarke, H. P. Lovecraft, etc. etc.
Apparently, I'm so good that I combine all of them.

OR

The site is shite.
 
arg-fallbackName="MRaverz"/>
On an edited essay, I wrote like Vladimir Nabokov. On the unedited version, Kurt Vonnegut.

In comparison, when I used my latest blog pots, I wrote like David Foster Wallace.
 
arg-fallbackName="lrkun"/>
Inferno said:
I got Dan Brown, Arthur Clarke, H. P. Lovecraft, etc. etc.
Apparently, I'm so good that I combine all of them.

OR

The site is shite.
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or the site is for entertainment.
 
arg-fallbackName="Inferno"/>
Irkun said:
or the site is for entertainment.
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Don't take my fun away! THE SITE IS BAD! :evil:

Nah seriously though, I don't even see any fun in it. If it told you something marginally funny, cool. But telling you who you write like AND BEING WRONG ABOUT IT...
I just don't have any sense of humor. :cry:
 
arg-fallbackName="Duvelthehobbit666"/>
I posted bits of an essay I am writing and got Arthur Clark. Don't know who he is but it seems that he is a sci-fi writer, and it was a science essay so it makes sense. Then I pasted a background to a RPG one shot and I got JRR Tolkein.
 
arg-fallbackName="Your Funny Uncle"/>
Duvelthehobbit666 said:
I posted bits of an essay I am writing and got Arthur Clark. Don't know who he is but it seems that he is a sci-fi writer, and it was a science essay so it makes sense.
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:shock:
 
arg-fallbackName="Anachronous Rex"/>
Mary Shelley apparently.

Though other parts of the same paper got me Dan Brown and Margaret Atwood... so I'm not reading too much into it.
 
arg-fallbackName="RichardMNixon"/>
Heh, posted bits from my research paper on quantum chemistry and got HP Lovecraft. I'm delving into places humans weren't meant to delve!

Elsewhere I apparently consistently write like Dan Brown.

Also note, when I put in two paragraphs of Call of Cthulhu, it said Lovecraft wrote like Daniel Defoe. :?:
 
arg-fallbackName="Case"/>
Oh, William Gibson! I am not so much a fan of his writing as I am a fan of his writings. Just ordered the second and third books of the Neuromancer trilogy.
Also note, when I put in two paragraphs of Call of Cthulhu, it said Lovecraft wrote like Daniel Defoe. :?:
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Now the interesting question is not why that's the output, it's whether Lovecraft read a lot of Defoe. ;)

I think the "I write like" is a profound misnomer and should be changed to "my text resembles the works/writing style of", as it is obvious that one person can and sometimes must use different styles of writing for different purposes. I never read David Foster Wallace, but I guess if he writes like me in the paragraph I wrote, his works must have some merit.
 
arg-fallbackName="lrkun"/>
Case said:
Oh, William Gibson! I am not so much a fan of his writing as I am a fan of his writings. Just ordered the second and third books of the Neuromancer trilogy.
Also note, when I put in two paragraphs of Call of Cthulhu, it said Lovecraft wrote like Daniel Defoe. :?:
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Now the interesting question is not why that's the output, it's whether Lovecraft read a lot of Defoe. ;)

I think the "I write like" is a profound misnomer and should be changed to "my text resembles the works/writing style of", as it is obvious that one person can and sometimes must use different styles of writing for different purposes. I never read David Foster Wallace, but I guess if he writes like me in the paragraph I wrote, his works must have some merit.
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David's the best there is in simplifying the meaning of life in a way that actually makes sense. :)

He wrote "this is water." If I was a theist, that is the bible.
 
arg-fallbackName="Case"/>
One more addition: If we assume a reasonably reliable analysis, we'd have to feed that program a great deal of samples of our writing before it could come to a somewhat reliable and/or valid conclusion, otherwise we'd just end up with more or less random output.
 
arg-fallbackName="Pulsar"/>
Apparently, Celine Dion writes like James Joyce.

And Lady Gaga writes like Ian Fleming.
 
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