The 'I-write-like' meme
Mar. 4th, 2012 05:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Charlie Allery, this is your fault:
Apparently, using a chunk from my children's book in progress:
This is not altogether displeasing - though I would have been happier with Diana Wynne Jones - however when I punched in a chunk of my alt.history fantasy the result I got was:
So I tried a third piece, science fiction this time, and got:
...which is ever-so-slightly worrying. So I punched in another bit from the same piece and got:
Now that's scary. I think this novel is toast!
So I tried my alt-history Polish novel and this time the result was a little more encouraging.
However just to check consistency I punched in another bit of the same novel and got:
So I think I'd better stop there.
Except... I got an email the other day that was obviously written by someone who was virtually illiterate, so I put that in and...
Sorry, Cory. I am absolutely sure you know the difference between there, they're and their and would be unlikely to use any of them in the same way as my correspondent.
Apparently, using a chunk from my children's book in progress:
This is not altogether displeasing - though I would have been happier with Diana Wynne Jones - however when I punched in a chunk of my alt.history fantasy the result I got was:
So I tried a third piece, science fiction this time, and got:
...which is ever-so-slightly worrying. So I punched in another bit from the same piece and got:
Now that's scary. I think this novel is toast!
So I tried my alt-history Polish novel and this time the result was a little more encouraging.
However just to check consistency I punched in another bit of the same novel and got:
So I think I'd better stop there.
Except... I got an email the other day that was obviously written by someone who was virtually illiterate, so I put that in and...
Sorry, Cory. I am absolutely sure you know the difference between there, they're and their and would be unlikely to use any of them in the same way as my correspondent.