I Write Like

[Amargith]

Arthur Clarke.

And I echo the comment above.

 

[brainheart]

Ha, me too. Just copied in a recent blog post; nothing special, just how I normally write. I've read Infinite Jest... guess I can kind of see it, though, he's WAY more wordy than I. It's probably my combo of really casual words/phrasing intertwined with more formal analytical type words/phrases.

(But, I think he's totally Ne dom / Ne aux, whereas I have almost no Ne, haha)

I've seen him typed as an INFP and I buy it. But I agree with what you say, as far as his/your style goes. And I write that way, too. In other words, Fi is a big part of the style as well.

How it works, according to the developer:

“Actually, the algorithm is not a rocket science, and you can find it on every computer today. It’s a Bayesian classifier, which is widely used to fight spam on the Internet. Take for example the “Mark as spam” button in Gmail or Outlook. When you receive a message that you think is spam, you click this button, and the internal database gets trained to recognize future messages similar to this one as spam. This is basically how “I Write Like” works on my side: I feed it with “Frankenstein” and tell it, “This is Mary Shelley. Recognize works similar to this as Mary Shelley.” Of course, the algorithm is slightly different from the one used to detect spam, because it takes into account more stylistic features of the text, such as the number of words in sentences, the number of commas, semicolons, and whether the sentence is a direct speech or a quotation.”

 

[Qlip]

Robert Louis Stevenson, Yo (ho ho).

 

[1487610420]

I didn't analyze all my writing...
...but from a a few posts excerpt first got this ...

and also this ...

so...
... I must be some kind of hybrid.

 

[ndovjtjcaqidthi]

Leo Tolstoy

 

[prplchknz]

Vladimir Nabokov

no clue who that is, but ok

 

[Forever_Jung]

I got Dan Brown, then I took out one paragraph that referenced Italian clothing and I got David Foster Wallace. Then I put it back in and deleted a different paragraph and got Anne Rice.

 

[Lexicon]

Used miscellaneous dream blog narrative entries, a poem/lyrics, & other posts where I'd strongly expressed my thoughts on a topic (abortion & ethics, etc).

Got this one three times:

"I write like
Chuck Palahniuk"

(& David Foster Wallace once.. though based on the results in this thread, he appears to be the writing world's Everyman- that little John Cusack in all of us.)



I can live with that.

 

[LadyLazarus]

If you say so website, if you say so...
Who knew my essay on affirmative action was so emo?

 

[ndovjtjcaqidthi]

Vladimir Nabokov

no clue who that is, but ok

He wrote Lolita.

 

[prplchknz]

He wrote Lolita.

Oh yeah I know that book, heard it's good

 

[OrderOfTheCaelifera]

Below are the results of analysis of your text.
Your Badge

I write like H. P. Lovecraft
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#2
Your Badge
I write like Mario Puzo

 

[Daenera]

I wrote:djdjdjd whwhw ptptpt s[s[s[s snebe pasia qwqwq got:
I write like
Chuck Palahniuk

 

[Ene]

Post from TC...H.P. Lovecraft
Blog entry...Stephen King
Paragraph from a book....Douglas Adams
Opening paragraph from another book....James Joyce

My conclusion.....we all write differently for different purposes, the parameters of the test are very limited and there isn't a broad enough range of comparisons....it's about as accurate as a Facebook quiz.
But, it was fun.

 

[prplchknz]

I did it on another sample, and I got david foster wallace. I did the first one when my mood was like ideas yay, and my second was one on blah thinking=bad. so I wonder if that's a factor, probably is

 

[Freesia]

H.P. Lovecraft, Ursula K. Le Guin and J.D. Salinger

 

[Qlip]

I pasted in a whole bunch of f-bombs resembling sentences and paragraphs and I got William Gibson. He's one of my favorite authors.

 

[Opal]

A poem I wrote in December 2012 got Nabokov. I'll try with more recent pieces later.

Okay, with three more recent poems I got one Charles Dickens and two James Joyces. I will use this information wisely.

 

[Nicodemus]

Isaac Asimov.

 

[Zarathustra]

Upon putting in a short email that was not the one I'd been looking for, I got Dan Brown.

I've never felt so low in my life.

Upon finding a longer, more representative sample (albeit still not the one I'd been looking for), I got Isaac Asimov (as I predicted).