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I'm sure you all have seen the writing "analysis" thing making the rounds. I was curious as to it's depth... so off to Gutenberg I went.

1) I plugged in much of the first canto of Don Juan, by Lord Byron. I got:


I write like
H. P. Lovecraft

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!





2) The first chapter of Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley


I write like
James Joyce

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!





3) Hmm, maybe they're just not distinctive enough. How about The Knight's Tale from Canterbury Tales
By Geoffrey Chaucer



I write like
William Shakespeare

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!




Uh huh. Right.

4) Let's try someone who is actually like Shakespeare. So like Shakespeare in fact, that's he's often accused of writing some of the plays. Here's Marlowe's Edward II


I write like
James Joyce

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!




Really? Really?

5) Maybe it's just a Western thing. Let's try the first novel ever. Chapter 1 of The Tale of Genji


I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!




Umm. Yeah.


6) I think I may be detecting some bias here. How about poetry? How about Ryunosuke Akutagawa? I did both haikus on the page:


I write like
Margaret Atwood

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!





I write like
Vladimir Nabokov

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!





Right.

I think I'm done.

Brilliant

Date: 2010-07-14 04:09 pm (UTC)
ericcoleman: (Applause Audience)
From: [personal profile] ericcoleman
And I have yet to see Dr Suess, and I know that some folks I know write like him ...

Date: 2010-07-14 04:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] itskoi.livejournal.com
I love it!

Date: 2010-07-14 04:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] trishtrash.livejournal.com
*awards you an 'I think like Edward de Bono' label*

Date: 2010-07-14 06:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tigertoy.livejournal.com
I wish you'd made this post public, so I could just drop a link to it on all the people who are cluttering up my friendslist with this meme.

Date: 2010-07-14 08:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] crossfire.livejournal.com
I love this. May I link?

Date: 2010-07-14 09:12 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] pameladean
[livejournal.com profile] marydell discovered that if you type in "Thee thee thee thee thee thee thee" it will say that you write like Shakespeare.

P.

Date: 2010-07-14 09:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bfly.livejournal.com
Oh, you and your scientific method! ;D

Date: 2010-07-14 10:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mplsfish.livejournal.com
I am so glad you did this.

Date: 2010-07-14 11:14 pm (UTC)
hrrunka: Laughing icon by Narumi (nar laugh)
From: [personal profile] hrrunka
Heh! Good one. :)

Date: 2010-07-15 06:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hitchhiker.livejournal.com
nice idea :)

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