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[flemmings]

Hah. Fed the I Write Like machine more of the Dan Brown story, and it said it was Isaac Asimov. Gave it a few pages and it called me Jane Austen. Gave it a whole bunch and it said I was James Joyce. The whole thing and I'm Vladimir Nabokov. Results vary by length, so nahh.

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[takumashii.livejournal.com]

Gaming the "I Write Like" analyzer (http://marydell.livejournal.com/141775.html)

To get Dan Brown, I put in this string:

"crucifix mountain scientist handsome foggy climbed archives raced"

James Joyce was even easier to get:

"the west song bridal faded potato"

And to get Shakespeare:

"thee thee thee thee thee thee thee thee thee thee"

[i-am-zan.livejournal.com]

ahahahahaha! Very cool!

[sunspot67.livejournal.com]

This happened to me as well. How can lengthy excepts from the same novel come up as Vonnegut, Dan Brown, and that guy who wrote Infinite Jest and whose name I can never remember? The machine it is flawed (or else I *really* am).

Followed over from Sayuki and am enjoying wandering through your lj. Hi.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Hi back atcha. Have fun.

The machine is more than flawed (http://nojojojo.livejournal.com/214801.html), by all accounts, so that even authors whose work isn't included in the base-- like Margaret Atwood-- are analyzed as writing like someone else.