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Date:      Fri, 6 Jul 2001 15:14:21 +0200
From:      Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
To:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Cc:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD spokesman (was: So what happens to FreeBSD now?)
Message-ID:  <20010706151421.I99228@lpt.ens.fr>
In-Reply-To: <20010706103808.A99228@lpt.ens.fr>; from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in on Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 10:38:08AM %2B0200
References:  <20010626122845.A11960@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010626214230.D461@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> <20010626174756.A61831@blackhelicopters.org> <20010702211810.B325@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20010703141550.045f5340@localhost> <20010705123729.M371@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> <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>

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I wrote:
> Yes, since your definition of "reference" is hitting the Google search
> engine and choosing the phrases you like.  I didn't even bother doing
> my own search: your own references discredit you so thoroughly (apart
> from the fact that you can't distinguish between an academic
> publication and DaemonNews.)

I'd like to add: the proper place to look for a definition is a
dictionary, rather than your hodgepodge of out-of-context quotes
and student writing guides. 

The Oxford English Dictionary defines plagiarism as:
   
     "the action or practice of plagiarizing; the wrongful appropriation
     or purloining, and publication as one's own, of the ideas, or the  
     expression of the ideas (literary, artistic, musical, mechanical,  
     etc.) of another." 
(http://www.library.dal.ca/killam/instruct/plagiar.htm)


From the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

   pla*giar*ize (BrE also -ise) /pledraz/ verb (disapproving) to copy
   another person's ideas, words or work and pretend that they are your
   own: [vn] He was accused of plagiarizing his colleague's results.
   [also v] 
   pla*giar*ism /pledrzm/ noun [U, C] (disapproving) an act of
   plagiarizing sth; sth that has been plagiarized: There were
   accusations of plagiarism.  a text full of plagiarisms 
(http://www1.oup.co.uk/elt/oald/)


If you find an authoritative reference work claiming that an
unattributed quote, even when clearly marked as a quote, is
plagiarism, let me know.

R

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