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jacey ([personal profile] jacey) wrote2012-03-04 05:11 pm
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The 'I-write-like' meme

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.

[identity profile] birdsedge.livejournal.com 2012-03-04 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes - at least I'm aiming at the same age group as early Harry POtter.