I hope this is okay in here.... (and just let me know if this has been done before)
Just as light distraction and to show a more fun side to grammar, a fellow AWer passed on this link for a gender checker regard authorship (she knows who she is all credit to her).
Basically, you feed it a 500-word extract, click on genre, and it will tell you if the author is male or female.
I used it because I'm female writing from a male's pov, and I wanted to see, more for narrative pov, what sex my work would be given based on my word choice.
For the experts: it's based on corpora study (British) of male and female texts from different genres. That may distort results slightly if you're American (I don't know if American texts are used), but as function words, articles, and negation use come up in the counts, I'm hoping it's not too much.
Anywho, here's the link:
http://bookblog.net/gender/genie.php
If you skive long enough to submit a sample, I'd be interested to know the results. Especially if you're writing in the opposite sex: did it pick up female or male?
Just as light distraction and to show a more fun side to grammar, a fellow AWer passed on this link for a gender checker regard authorship (she knows who she is all credit to her).
Basically, you feed it a 500-word extract, click on genre, and it will tell you if the author is male or female.
I used it because I'm female writing from a male's pov, and I wanted to see, more for narrative pov, what sex my work would be given based on my word choice.
For the experts: it's based on corpora study (British) of male and female texts from different genres. That may distort results slightly if you're American (I don't know if American texts are used), but as function words, articles, and negation use come up in the counts, I'm hoping it's not too much.
Anywho, here's the link:
http://bookblog.net/gender/genie.php
If you skive long enough to submit a sample, I'd be interested to know the results. Especially if you're writing in the opposite sex: did it pick up female or male?