[RE: ann coulter's book and plagiarism accusations]
how can her book be plagarism?she is telling the truth and since when is telling the truth considered someone elses worth??? should i site the original source for saying 2+2=4????? how about someon saying that global warming doesnt exist??
my point is that when someone tells the truth i do not see why they should site sources especially when they are doing so to save people from going to hell in the first places
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OK, first it's "cite" not "site", although I doubt that would sink in. And second, while we don't go around citing people when we speak, we sure as hell are supposed to when we make MONEY off of other people's words!
Yet you happily cite the book chapter and verse of the fucking bible. That shouldn't be necessary. Oh wait, it's not 'the truth'. Sorry.
English is extremely subjective and creative. Ripping someone's prose word for word and claiming it as your own is dishonest, cheating, misleading and fraudulent.
There are countless ways to call you an idiot - all are the truth, some are better than others.
Nicole: if being this stupid is what it takes to go to Heaven, would you want to go there?
Sandman: you are probably right.
NtC: I reject your reality and substitute my own! (and I can say that because I'm not making money off of it...though I doubt that Mythbusters has any legal claim to the phrase...)
NtC: I reject your reality and substitute my own! (and I can say that because I'm not making money off of it...though I doubt that Mythbusters has any legal claim to the phrase...)
Sorry, Adam had a better delivery.
Whether or not something is true has nothing to do with whether or not someone plagiarizes it.
It's spelled "plagiarism," Bonehead.
The word is "cite" not site, Dumdum.
"some one elses worth???" You mean "work," Dimwit.
Learn to capitalize properly and check out apostrophes. Apostrophes make even stupid crap like yours more intelligible.
Nic, I know people who REALLY believe that. According to them, we are in Iraq after the terrorists, and when we catch them we will leave. If there were any terrorists anywhere else, we would be there instead. As proof of this they cite (hee hee, I got the right spelling) the fact that there have been no attacks in the US since we invaded Iraq ('cause all the terrorists are hiding in Iraq, see?) and the fact that GWB would never make an error in his War.*
* This despite the fact that an overwhelming number of experts express the opinion that the Department of Homeland Security is a friggin' joke, and if a terrorist wanted to hit us, we are essentially as wide open as Courtney Love's legs on a Friday night.
AngryNotice is a bigger fuckwit than JohnR7. That is an accomplishment!
Plagiarism occurs when someone copies someone else's written work, without consent, or without acknowledging the original writer. It is not only unethical, it also violates copyright laws, and is illegal.
However, since the sources Ms. Coulter plagiarises are from the likes of Ham, Hovind, et. al, there is no point in pursuing it.
My beef is when she misquotes legitimate sources, or quotes "portions" out of context. Then plagiarism becomes lying.
Sorry, forgot, lying for Jesus is OK.
YOU DOLT YOU CITE SOURCES NOT 'SITE' THEM YOU COMPLETE MORON!!!
anyway now that's off my chest, is this guy trying to say global warming doesn't exist, in the face of all these problems caused by global warming?
@b. beau brinker
Like Ann gives a shit about anyone going to hell or not. She's so full of herself - and full of other things equally vile.
Like Pop-Tarts?
<<< she is telling the truth >>>
And I'm the fucking Pope.
<<< and since when is telling the truth considered someone elses worth? >>>
At least since Isaac Newton's day. He gave credit to all those who came before (something along the lines of "If I have seen further, it is because I am standing on the shoulders of giants").
<<< should i site the original source for saying 2+2=4? >>>
Not necessary, since it's axiomatic.
<<< how about someon saying that global warming doesnt exist? >>>
Yes, you should.
Plagiarism, if somebody has told the truth before and you pass it as totally yours, it´s a lie. And an intellectual crime, for that matter.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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