You're all committing plagiarism!
By ZaffireWolf
@ZaffireWolf (480)
United States
May 7, 2007 7:09am CST
You're all doing it! Even I'm doing it! We're all committing plagiarism! What are we plagiarising in our speech and writing? The English dictionary! That's right, you're using words that were written from the English dictionary! How dare you say "peach" or "splat"? From aardvark to zymurgy, all these words have been written down somewhere, and we're all stealing from them! We need to stop speaking right now!
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4 responses
@Greenberry (77)
• United States
7 May 07
Hmmn, it could be said that the English dictionary plagarises spoken word, since that evolved before writing. Probably!
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@emeraldisle (13139)
• United States
7 May 07
Heheh I'm taking this as a humorous post and I think it's quite well done. Since plagerism is the copying of words in a particular order that someone else has already placed them in then this could be construed as plagerism. However since there is no intent to commit plagiarism and that I think Webster would want us to use his dictionary to write said words down then I think we are all safe.
@creativemusician (29)
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8 May 07
Have you nothing better to do with your time? Are you short of ideas for writing projects? Have you a serious case of writer's block? Or are you just trying to be funny?
Plagiarism is theft of an idea, not of words that mean nothing on their own. Honestly, you're as daft as those who complain about mistakes when people are using abreviations on the computer!
@Helium_Popsicle (75)
• United States
7 May 07
I have yet to see anyone copy the words that we speak. When that happens, we will be plagarising, not until.
