It's Sweeping the Nations!
Jul. 14th, 2010 11:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
krpalmerAs part of checking different journals this morning, I noticed several people (starting with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
selenak) analysing their writing, and thought I'd try it out too. The first thing I dropped into the input box was my most recent journal post, and it returned "Dan Brown." As with other people who got that, my instantaneous reaction was to feel a little mortified, for all that it seems one hundred percent an inherited-through-hearsay feeling... Then, I put in two somewhat longer posts, got "H.P. Lovecraft" both times, and felt a bit better. However, there does seem to be a bit of a "feed in bits of different writing, and get completely different results" feel to the analyser: working with various chunks of actual fiction I've written (if as a completely personal indulgence), I got "Isaac Asimov," "Stephen King," "H.G. Wells," and "Vladimir Nabokov" in succession.
Then, the thought of being really clever came to me. I have a text file of H.P. Lovecraft's writing (from Project Gutenberg Australia), and I dropped in the first four paragraphs of "The Call of Cthulhu"... and the analyser returned "Vladimir Nabokov." The opening paragraphs of "The Colour Out of Space" returned "Ernest Hemingway." A little worried by now, I tried the first paragraphs of "The Dunwich Horror" and finally got "H.P. Lovecraft." Of course, it's no doubt just meant as harmless fun, and I did happen to look at the link to the journalling software this is promoting, so it even seems to have accomplished its purpose.
selenak) analysing their writing, and thought I'd try it out too. The first thing I dropped into the input box was my most recent journal post, and it returned "Dan Brown." As with other people who got that, my instantaneous reaction was to feel a little mortified, for all that it seems one hundred percent an inherited-through-hearsay feeling... Then, I put in two somewhat longer posts, got "H.P. Lovecraft" both times, and felt a bit better. However, there does seem to be a bit of a "feed in bits of different writing, and get completely different results" feel to the analyser: working with various chunks of actual fiction I've written (if as a completely personal indulgence), I got "Isaac Asimov," "Stephen King," "H.G. Wells," and "Vladimir Nabokov" in succession.Then, the thought of being really clever came to me. I have a text file of H.P. Lovecraft's writing (from Project Gutenberg Australia), and I dropped in the first four paragraphs of "The Call of Cthulhu"... and the analyser returned "Vladimir Nabokov." The opening paragraphs of "The Colour Out of Space" returned "Ernest Hemingway." A little worried by now, I tried the first paragraphs of "The Dunwich Horror" and finally got "H.P. Lovecraft." Of course, it's no doubt just meant as harmless fun, and I did happen to look at the link to the journalling software this is promoting, so it even seems to have accomplished its purpose.