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New Breed of Detective Fiction?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1197187/Dear-Garry-Ive-decided-end-The-stop-trapped-killer.html
I've heard of forensic linguistics before from my lecturers. Interesting twist that the internet is littered with our linguistic 'fingerprint.'
I've always thought this would be too hard; that you would need an indepth knowledge of linguistics. I may just have a go though.
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That is fascinating!
However, it's only an extension of what any office manager already knows. I could pick up a letter from a 'pool' and know who'd typed it.
But I do know that you can learn to recognise people from their writing. Many of our older club members when judging competitions can recognise who is likely to have written individual pieces. I know a few by their writing, it is almost as if I can hear them reading the piece aloud.
But any tool that helps...