Gaming the "I Write Like" analyzer

[marydell]

Ok, various people are feeling insulted by the "I write like" analyzer.  Let's go pick on it!

If you put in a string of 5 to 10 words, that's enough to get it to tell you an author.  I'm certain it's looking for keywords, not analyzing structure.

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" (it won't let you post a single word, but apparently repeating it is ok)

Go on, try it, and post your strings here if you're willing.  I know it has Hemingway, Lovecraft, Ian Fleming, and Bram Stoker, but I'm sure there are a bunch more results that can be extracted.  Anyone get Jane Austen yet?

Comments

[gailmom.livejournal.com]

ewww...by entering my latest real blog post...I get J.K. Rowling. :S

but if I enter my latest erotica I get Chuck Palahniuk...I don't even know who that is, and neither does spellcheck (though it recognized Rowling).

But if I enter "shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Though art more lovely and more temperate." I get James Joyce.

So it's just all kinds of fucked really.

[gailmom.livejournal.com]

oh, and to get Bram Stoker, I entered "fuck dracula, that ghoul can suck my anemic blood"

[bravest-unsaid.livejournal.com]

Palahniuk wrote Fight Club, most notably.

[skylarker.livejournal.com]

I got Isaac Asimov using the first ten pages of a light magical fantasy romance. Ooo - I used the words 'asymptotic' and 'hyperboloid' on page one.

[kcobweb.livejournal.com]

By entering "It is a truth universally acknowledged...", one does get "Jane Austen" for the result. So that's good, I guess.

(Using various LJ posts of mine, I got Stephen King first, then Dan Brown, and finally Kurt Vonnegut.)

[kcobweb.livejournal.com]

I just entered "She clasped her hands before her in anguish and shook her raven tresses as they tumbled down her back." and it gave me an answer of James Fenimore Cooper. :)

[houseboatonstyx.livejournal.com]

It told me that...

Jane Austen writes like Jane Austen
Henry James writes like Jane Austen
Nabokov writes like Nabokov
Norman Maclean writes like Defoe
Defoe writes like Shakespeare
Howard Kurtz writes like Stephen King (well, that could have been the content)
Sagan writes like Poe
Poe writes like Doyle
Doyle writes like Doyle

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

That is one of the best pieces of "found" poetry I've read in a while...

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

Sagan: Carl or Françoise?

[houseboatonstyx.livejournal.com]

Carl. About the little blue dot.

[bravest-unsaid.livejournal.com]

Apparently this (http://bravest-unsaid.livejournal.com/66356.html) entry reads like Margaret Atwood?

[marydell.livejournal.com]

keyword "pregnancy," I bet.

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

I write like
William Shakespeare (http://iwl.me/w/f0797b6c)

I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software (http://www.codingrobots.com/memoires/). Analyze your writing! (http://iwl.me)

I got this for writing "Thou thou thou art art art an an an ass ass ass."

I write the academic prose, btw, of H.P. Lovecraft.

[marydell.livejournal.com]

Now I'm imagining a volume of the lost academic writings of Lovecraft...

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

I'm wondering what, in my vocabulary, triggered that. Perhaps it was the quotations from Walcott.

One of Walcott's poem's "The Sea is History" came up as James Joyce, another, "A Far Cry from Africa" came up as Chuck Palahniuk. An extract from "The Schooner Flight", which I did quote, came up as Stephen King. Walcott's Nobel Prize lecture, from which I quoted, came up as Lovecraft. I am croggled.

[ashnistrike.livejournal.com]

"cyclopean degenerate gibbous asylum fish"

"You write like Margaret Atwood."

What?

[marydell.livejournal.com]

ROFL! Not Lovecraft for that set of words?! That's hilarious.

[ashnistrike.livejournal.com]

That's what I was going for. I gave in next and tried "eldritch eldritch eldritch eldritch eldritch." Still Atwood. Who knew?

[marydell.livejournal.com]

Hee!

"awful awful dark dark awful awful dark dark" = Mark Twain (! maybe because of the cave scene in Tom Sawyer?)

"madness madness madness madness madness madness" = Oscar Wilde

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

"Mad, bad, and dangerous to know." Lady Caroline Lamb's judgment of Lord Byron, came up as Oscar Wilde.