statistical analysis

Check what famous writer you write like with this statistical analysis tool, which analyses your word choice and writing style and compares them to those of the famous writers.’ This is the – somewhat questionable, writing-wise – promise of I write like…, a handy website that invites casual browsers to paste in ‘your latest blog post, journal entry, Reddit comment, chapter of your unfinished book, etc’, and then uses its robot brain to break down the material. I went for blog posts, and can reveal that my first one on this site was written in the style of Nabokov; there followed an unsettling baroque phase – four posts – in which I wrote like H.P. Lovecraft, but since then I appear to have reined myself in, writing like Chuck Palahniuk and, most recently, Dan Brown. (The preceding sentences, however, are Nabokovian.) Further analysis from Metafilter’s qxntpqbbbqxl reveals that Nabokov writes like Dickens, Emily Dickinson like Lovecraft, Lovecraft like H.G. Wells, Dan Brown and himself; the King James Bible is like Shakespeare, who writes like James Fenimore Cooper. Kurt Vonnegut, Edgar Allan Poe and Isaac Asimov write like themselves.
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Imperialist says:
15 July 2010 at 11:11 am
I’m David Foster Wallace, consistently. Which accurately discerns a dependence on parenthesis, a compulsion to include every implication and dialectical contingency, an addiction to an irony I don’t trust and a paradoxical awareness of the urgency and pointlessness of everything I say. Beyond that, the description is mere flattery. (Although the preceding lines are apparently like Vonnegut [which somehow seems to reinforce its the Foster Wallacianess .]) (However, an authentically DFWallacian text would be transformed into the David Foster Wallace-like prose it was always going to be by the preceding parenthetical appendix, whereas it apparently retained its Vonnegut characteristics.) (The difference between me and DFW is that he wouldn’t stop there. Or here. There also would follow a query about whether or not the application only looked at the opening sentences and whether or not that was sufficient justification to stop [or even a metaphysical incentive to keep going].) (Although once DFW became ‘David Foster Wallace’ he would keep going until he was ‘Kurt Vonnegut’ which would as yet be unnecessary because this remains in the style of Kurt Vonnegut, or at least the ‘Kurt Vonnegut’ of this application who has attained an identity separate from the World Famous Author Kurt Vonnegut (complicated by the fact that in this case ‘Kurt Vonnegut’ and Kurt Vonnegut actually write identically).)