A tale of two writers
Via Breda, comes this I Write Like thing. You paste some text, it tells you who you write like. I put in a few blog entries and it said I, like Breda, write like some guy I had to google to figure out he was. And it turns out he is a blogger for boing boing.
Then, for laughs, I put in something I had written for work. And I get Arthur C. Clarke. I laughed.
July 19th, 2010 at 11:36 am
I tried three times, got one HP Lovecraft and two David Foster Wallace.
July 19th, 2010 at 11:46 am
Apparently I write like Cory Doctorow, who’ve I’ve actually heard of. He’s a science fiction writer. Go figure.
July 19th, 2010 at 11:59 am
I write like $RANDOM_AUTHOR, too! 😀
July 19th, 2010 at 1:02 pm
I knew who Doctorow was because I read Boing Boing and ordered one of his books for the young adult collection here at the library.
Still, I’m somewhat ashamed that I write like a geek hipster.
July 19th, 2010 at 1:12 pm
Dan Brown, interesting, because although I’ve read all his books, I put in a letter I wrote a friend from before I ever read a Dan Brown book!
I also tried a couple blog posts, Dan Brown on them too!
Hmmmm…
July 19th, 2010 at 2:33 pm
Apparently I blog like Dan Brown and work like H P Lovecraft. (The Lovecraft thing almost makes sense with the horror I get every day I come in here.)
July 19th, 2010 at 2:47 pm
Sort of fun, uses an algorithm similar to the ones used to detect spam.
My forum posts are Jane Austen like, evidently!
July 19th, 2010 at 3:09 pm
Lovecraft. Very metal indeed, which is awesome.
July 19th, 2010 at 5:08 pm
I’m with Ed. Death Metal blogging FTW!
July 20th, 2010 at 2:21 pm
I write like me, and I am the only one.
I like that.