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_refugee_  ·  3728 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hemingway - a web app that shows you when you break Hemingway's rules of writing

I always found gender guessing algorithms to be a fun thing to play with as well, although I never used one in an attempt to make my writing more gendered one way or another. I just like to see which gender my various writing presents. And it does vary, depending on whether I am writing academic prose, fiction, poetry, etc.

This is interesting at minimum as just another tool that allows/encourages/shows one how to play with writing.





lil  ·  3727 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I pasted my most recent blog in the gender guessing app. The app differentiates between formal and informal like this:

    Formal writing includes fiction and non-fiction stories, articles, and news reports. Informal writing includes blog and chat-room text. (Email can be formal, informal, or some combination.) You should view the results based on the appropriate type of writing.
The app defines blogs as a"informal", but I take a more formal narrative approach to my blog, so it could also be formal.

Conclusion: I seem to go both ways. So true:

    Genre: Informal

      Female = 487
      Male   = 734
      Difference = 247; 60.11%
      Verdict: MALE
    Genre: Formal

      Female = 731
      Male   = 712
      Difference = -19; 49.34%
      Verdict: Weak FEMALE
    Weak emphasis could indicate European.