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pedro
Posted: Tuesday, November 08, 2011 4:41:35 AM

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Following the comments above, I posted text consisting of nothing but a repeated 'dadadadadada....' and got Dan Brown so maybe there is something in it.

"Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon" Suzanne Ertz
thar
Posted: Tuesday, November 08, 2011 4:52:50 AM

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I ape Isaac Asimov, apparently, though that probably has more to do with me posting part of a geochemistry essay than any personal style!

Hmm, another essay gets Edgar Allan Poe. I can live with that. Now, what can I put in to prove I actually write like John Donne?

This could be seriously addictive!
jeans&sneakers
Posted: Tuesday, November 08, 2011 5:06:51 AM

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jeans&sneakers wrote:

I got James Joyce the first time.

Then got Vladimir Nabokov and Margaret Atwood the third and fourth time (same message)

It's totally random! Applause



Oops, I meant second and third.

Agree with you, thar. I actually tried thrice to see if I could get the "Cromagnon man" result. I typed in "goo goo gaa gaa," etc. Maybe jcbarros was just kidding? Eh? :p



Ako ay ako, ikaw ay ikaw.
percivalpecksniff
Posted: Sunday, December 25, 2011 7:58:32 AM

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[size=6][color=brown]I write like myself. I make no claims above or beneath that. Le

The idea is crazy. I inserted a few pargraps from one of my works and got H.P.Lovecf=craft a writer of horror stories... duh!

Then I inserted the next few pargraphs and got William Shakespeare... it made me laugh. [/color
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Aristotle
percivalpecksniff
Posted: Sunday, December 25, 2011 12:44:09 PM

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I write like myself. I make no claims above or beneath that.

The idea is crazy. I inserted a few paragraps from one of my works and got H.P.Lovecraft a writer of horror stories... duh!

Then I inserted the next few pargraphs and got William Shakespeare... it made me laugh. Hic I am sober now.


It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Aristotle
Geeman
Posted: Monday, December 26, 2011 12:37:18 AM

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Thanks for the link. Great fun.

I got Tolkien for one piece of writing and Arthur Clarke on another. That made sense for the first piece as it actually was some fantasy fiction, but what it said was like Clarke was a long, epic poem. I guess it is science fictiony in a certain vague sense, so that one also has some sort of rational explanation.
Articulate Dreamer
Posted: Tuesday, December 27, 2011 8:55:33 PM

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I wish i wrote like Byron
With a libido of iron
I wish i wrote like Christie
Mysteries all twisty
Or like Asimov or Crichton
With unbridled imagination
But i think i'll give it a bash
To measure up to Ogden Nash

"Tiger! Tiger!...my mistake...I thought I was William Blake" ~Ogden Nash
Articulate Dreamer
Posted: Sunday, January 01, 2012 4:47:33 AM

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I tried the link with my writing and got Kipling, Vonnegut, Lovecraft and Joyce.
I fed in a passage from Joyce and the analyzer said it was Dan Brown-like.
Agatha Christie yielded Stephen King.
William Thackeray it seems writes like Joyce.
Bernard Shaw gave me Lovecraft.

The trick is to change the proper nouns.
Fallible totally, but as others observe, fun.

"Tiger! Tiger!...my mistake...I thought I was William Blake" ~Ogden Nash
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