Andrew Gray schreef:
On 17/08/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
On a lighter note, I know exactly what you mean about being able to spot Wikipedia text a mile off. I find the best clues are the words "neologism" and "portmanteau", I've never seen them used anywhere else, but one of them is in the first sentence of pretty much every Wikipedia article.
Yeah, our first sentences are the easy bits. "PAGENAME is an (adjective) noun, contextual-phrase other noun"; restate the topic in a really simple way.
See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_article:
A '''Wikipedia article''' is an encyclopdic article written for [[Wikipedia]]. Wikipedia articles are generally written in a distinctive and recognizable style, which has often been described as boring[1][2][3][4][5][6], although some articles are said to contain "brilliant prose".{{fact}}
Contents 1 Introduction 3 History of Wikipedia articles 4 Writing a Wikipedia article 5 Criticism 5 Wikipedia articles in popular culture ...