Submitted by outofcontrolbehavior t3_10a6tgn in books
A while ago, I read an article about an AI program that can scan a book and identify which author wrote it from their repeated use of specific rare word(s). I wish I had a link; it was fascinating.
Ever since then, I can’t help but spot those words and when they are repeated it absolutely drives me up a wall. Why that specific word? Why not a synonym? It’s to the extent that I’ve had urges to tweet that one word to the author to find out how they’d respond.
I’ve just started “Dune: House Atreides” by Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson. I’m enjoying the book, except for that one rare word that keeps popping up. It’s like there was a special sale at the local wordsmith’s shop and they stocked up! The word is “BUCOLIC”.
If you could troll your favorite author with that ONE WORD, which author/word would it be?
Edit/update: After some searching, it turns out this was posted in r/books 6 years ago.