Fun with plagiarism

Doctors NOT writing clearly costs tax payers a lot of money, since their reporting dictates how much medicare and medicaid pay out per patient.

I definitely understand having to adapt my communication in order to have the other party feel comfortable. Different methods of communication have replaced well written words with text speak and slang. I suck at writing, but I'm not a writer. Even though I'm not a writer, it still doesn't make intellectual property theft for personal gain okay.

I don't downgrade my writing. I don't even have a "pardon my sloppiness because txting" signature on my smartphone because I don't take shortcuts there - you can't tell what I might have used to compose a message. It's a bit of a pet peeve. If the other party is more comfortable with crappy grammar, bad spelling or incomplete thoughts, they're best off dealing with someone else.

I was writing mostly about spoken word. Sometimes, you have to adapt to your territory. My wife hates me for my ability to do it, especially when I slip into deep redneck.

Keith Tanner wrote: I don't downgrade my writing. I don't even have a "pardon my sloppiness because txting" signature on my smartphone because I don't take shortcuts there - you can't tell what I might have used to compose a message. It's a bit of a pet peeve. If the other party is more comfortable with crappy grammar, bad spelling or incomplete thoughts, they're best off dealing with someone else.

Amen, brother.

Derick Freese wrote: I was writing mostly about spoken word. Sometimes, you have to adapt to your territory. My wife hates me for my ability to do it, especially when I slip into deep redneck.

It is very handy to be able to read and imitate the local "flavor" when you walk into a town bar in a new place where they may or may not be running the lights on a generator. "I say my good man, I'd like a warm milk" might work in some regions where "I say my good man, I'd like a warm milk ~pregnant pause~ in a dirty glass" might work in others.

disclaimer I stole and adapted that last line from a skit that Kermit Thee Frog did on the Electric Company. It was set in a western saloon. I think he borrowed it from Buster Keaton. Plagiarism. Suck it, bitches!

Please stop giving people on the internet grief for bad grammar. A good many of them are already typing in their second or third language to accommodate a bunch of uncouth uni-lingual pendants. Let's not reveal ourselves, eh? (that was in Canadian for anyone who thinks I can't speak two languages).

02Pilot wrote: 1) they don't think they're going to get caught

My son is teaching a chemistry lab and just busted a student - not get caught? They submit their papers to a website that scans for this problem.

Datsun310Guy wrote:

02Pilot wrote: 1) they don't think they're going to get caught

My son is teaching a chemistry lab and just busted a student - not get caught? They submit their papers to a website that scans for this problem.

I enjoy the irony that that website makes money fighting improper use of other people's work by using a database of other people's work.

Datsun310Guy wrote:

02Pilot wrote: 1) they don't think they're going to get caught

My son is teaching a chemistry lab and just busted a student - not get caught? They submit their papers to a website that scans for this problem.

Yep. They still don't think they're going to get caught. For people raised with technology, many are surprisingly ignorant of its uses beyond texting and Facebook. You'd be shocked how many struggle with basic word processor functions.

That said, those sites have their limitations. And an experienced instructor who knows their students' work can spot plagiarism (or cheating on exams, which usually involves surreptitiously looking up something on a phone during the test) a mile away.

Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote: ... Let's not reveal ourselves, eh? (that was in Canadian for anyone who thinks I can't speak two languages).

Then where are all the extra "u"s?