The Writing thingy gacked from half my flist!

[inzilbeth_liz]

Umm well I did get a badge saying I wrote like JRR Tolkien, which is nice but I couldn't figure how to get it to come up on LJ [I've never understood the techno mumbo jumbo associated with these kind of things] so you'll just have to take my word for it unless this link brings it up! Below is the passage I pasted into the thingy to do it's thingy

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[shirebound]

I pasted one of my paragraphs from "The Three Towers" into the thing, and apparently I write like Stephen King. Then I pasted a paragraph from "The Three Towers" and... I write like Stephen King!

[inzilbeth_liz]

LOL! Methinks this thingy doesn't always know its JRRT from its, well, er... Stephen King!

[mysterious_jedi]

very Tolkienish indeed!

[inzilbeth_liz]

Selected at random obviously LOL!

[suzll]

Agreed, very Tolkienish!!

Haha, I tried this too...pasted a passage from one of my LOTR fics and apparently I write like Lewis Carrol. Who'd have thought?

[inzilbeth_liz]

Lewis Carrol? Surely not!

[silivren_tinu]

Hehe, I got the same result (and I was quite happy about it)! It would have been very strange to be told I'm writing like Stephen King, lol!

[inzilbeth_liz]

I do wonder quite how this thing works. I'm just glad not to write like Stephen KIng too!

[silivren_tinu]

I'm wondering how this thing works, too! It would be interesting to know. ;-)

[bunn]

I thought I would test it, and it managed to correctly identify 'Earendil', 'All that is gold does not glitter' and Gollum's riddles as by Tolkien.

However, 'Oliphaunt' foxed it - it thought that sounded more like James Joyce. I guess it's not quite JRRT's usual style!

[inzilbeth_liz]

LOL! It's not that clever then! Interesting it goes by key words and phrases rather than writing style which, come to think of it, would probably be quite a task.