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9/10: Not bad, but you're no Sir Vidia Foxhead Send a noteboard - 03/06/2011 04:56:08 PM
which i think is mean as i never claimed to be

There are always people out there who would claim that men and women write inherently different types of fiction/language/whatever. The latest such is V.S. Naipaul. I have always been sceptical of the claim and I find it absurd that a well respected author like Naipaul, who has spent his writing life tackling another form of marginalisation, would spout such nonsense.

Anyway. Here is a test. I'd be interested to hear what you get, as a semi-scientific sampling of the reading public (please let me know if you get something right because you recognise the passage).


i think from less acclomplished writers it's easier to tell through their use of language, it's obviously harder the better they are as they become better at emoting the voice of the person they're narrating (male or female)

it didn't take more than a quick skim of each paragraph for me to decide
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Sex and writing - 03/06/2011 03:45:43 PM 1304 Views
This test simply reinforced a completely different opinion of mine. - 03/06/2011 04:07:26 PM 763 Views
Literature reflects society. Welcome to the age of text messaging *NM* - 03/06/2011 06:08:53 PM 365 Views
Agreed. *NM* - 03/06/2011 10:14:05 PM 338 Views
I really disliked those excerpts as well - 04/06/2011 02:10:36 AM 722 Views
5/10. Exactly as chance would predict. *NM* - 22/06/2011 11:27:25 AM 341 Views
6/10 - 03/06/2011 04:34:19 PM 699 Views
9/10: Not bad, but you're no Sir Vidia - 03/06/2011 04:56:08 PM 904 Views
6/10! *NM* - 03/06/2011 06:06:09 PM 351 Views
7/10. - 03/06/2011 07:15:44 PM 826 Views
6/10. Would be 7/10 but I thought #10 was a trick question. *NM* - 03/06/2011 07:17:51 PM 340 Views
8/10, but that is really largely luck if you ask me. - 03/06/2011 07:45:07 PM 802 Views
7/10 - 03/06/2011 09:52:40 PM 750 Views
5/10 I was guessing on all of them though. - 03/06/2011 11:19:09 PM 716 Views
8/10 - 04/06/2011 12:54:02 AM 753 Views
Guessed all the way through. 2/10 - 04/06/2011 04:06:08 AM 660 Views
9/10, but that doesn't mean a thing... - 04/06/2011 08:06:00 AM 754 Views
I also got 4 out of 10 - 04/06/2011 02:17:50 PM 775 Views
At the same time? - 06/06/2011 04:54:09 PM 756 Views
7/10 *NM* - 22/06/2011 08:49:07 PM 366 Views
These results don't prove Naipaul wrong - 30/06/2011 07:58:39 PM 867 Views

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