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Without citation this comment is essentially plagiarism. To the unfamiliar, it's from 1984, by George Orwell (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Fou
by doc_gunthrop 6y ago
Without citation this comment is essentially plagiarism.
To the unfamiliar, it's from 1984, by George Orwell (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four)
- minerjoe 6y agoFour score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war... Plagiarism?
- doc_gunthrop 6y agoComparing one of the most famous opening lines of speech in American history to a specific few sentences from the middle of a novel? Sure...fair comparison.
- napier 6y agoA novel that almost everyone who spends time here has read.
- doc_gunthrop 6y agoThat's an assumption with zero backing.
- doc_gunthrop 6y agoBy the way, if you're going to avoid giving proper attribution, at least put quotes around the passage being quoted. Otherwise it's implied that those words came from you.
- jessedhillon 6y agoI don't know whether to downvote this comment for myopic focus on possibly the most irrelevant detail, or upvote it for masterfully interpreting the theme of this thread: dogmatically catastrophizing the inane. Truly a Kaufmanian contribution.