Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 17:50:36 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Plagiarism (Was: FreeBSD spokesman) Message-ID: <20010706175036.O99228@lpt.ens.fr> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010706093248.04533cf0@localhost>; from brett@lariat.org on Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 09:40:59AM -0600 References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010705125211.04638740@localhost> <20010705224626.O47721@lpt.ens.fr> <4.3.2.7.2.20010705163434.04524b00@localhost> <20010706103808.A99228@lpt.ens.fr> <20010706151421.I99228@lpt.ens.fr> <4.3.2.7.2.20010706071808.04536ef0@localhost> <20010706170429.M99228@lpt.ens.fr> <4.3.2.7.2.20010706090739.045bc340@localhost> <20010706173117.N99228@lpt.ens.fr> <4.3.2.7.2.20010706093248.04533cf0@localhost>
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Brett Glass said on Jul 6, 2001 at 09:40:59: > At 09:31 AM 7/6/2001, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > >[Greg] abided by perfectly adequate attribution standards for this medium. > > Not so. Daemon News is a technical journal that also appears in print. Most newspapers and magazines that I'm aware of do appear in print. That does not make them technical journals. > >I still assume that the authors are consistent and don't > >change the meaning of a verb mid-sentence. > > Again, see the Merriam-Webster definition online. So here it is: plagiarize [etymology etc skipped] transitive senses : to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source intransitive senses : to commit literary theft : present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source I fail to see how it supports your position any better than the Webster print version. > No, Rahul, YOU are. Your arguments have been so weak that you've > now resorted to arguing ad hominem against authoritative sources > such as Webster's dictionary and the MLA Manual. No. I don't like Webster, but it supports me on this. So does your online Merriam-Webster. Your quote from the MLA manual is one single sentence with the ambiguous word "use" which I consider inadequate; besides, I never criticised that work: I'm not at all familiar with it. R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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