I think it would be funny if, in the fantasy future where I am a published author, someone accuses me of stealing all my jokes from some guy named "Polter-Cow" on the Internet
Oh, don't think we won't. You dead-bovine thief, you.
You were very nearly devoured by a giant demon snake. The words 'let that be a lesson' are a tad redundant at this juncture.
Giles ,'Selfless'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Miracleman - Jan 10, 2008 8:01:22 am PST #4659 of 28342
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
P.M. Marc - Jan 10, 2008 8:05:14 am PST #4660 of 28342
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
That was her first book, IIRC.
As a racing-mad teen, it made me want to write a long, annoying letter detailing everything she got wrong, which was almost everything.
In that pre-Google era, accurate information on horse racing and breeding rules and regulations was still not hard to come by, drat it!
But I suppose I can forgive her for it. Mebbe.
(Yes, it is my Bullet Proof Pedantry!)
Frankenbuddha - Jan 10, 2008 8:05:39 am PST #4661 of 28342
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
If I recall correctly, they kept telling her she was being mean ....
Like the girls who picked on them in High School?
Polter-Cow - Jan 10, 2008 8:11:18 am PST #4662 of 28342
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Accusing someone of plagiarism rightfully is so nerdy and ugly and mean.
Toddson - Jan 10, 2008 8:18:27 am PST #4663 of 28342
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
And, on the SBTB site, they had a plagairism expert of some sort who'd looked at the examples (or perhaps only one or two) and say it did look like plagairism ... and someone posted accusing him of slander.
It's very fan-girly in there.
Polter-Cow - Jan 10, 2008 8:18:57 am PST #4664 of 28342
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I wonder how one becomes a plagiarism expert.
Dear God, plagiarism is a fucked-up word. -iari-? Are they trying to make sure that only people intelligent enough to spell it can accuse people of it?
Toddson - Jan 10, 2008 8:22:52 am PST #4665 of 28342
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
hasn't stopped anyone so far ....
Steph L. - Jan 10, 2008 8:26:25 am PST #4666 of 28342
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Now you people made me go read some of the CE threads over at SBTB, and I'm flabbergasted by the commenters who seem to think that it was wrong and mean for a reader to google passages from the CE ferret book.
As if there's some other magical, telepathic way to divine plagiarism.
Nutty - Jan 10, 2008 8:45:53 am PST #4667 of 28342
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Dear God, plagiarism is a fucked-up word.
It's following Italian (presumably, Latinate) spelling: the I after the G and before a vowel forces a hard G rather than a soft one. Like Giovanni or Giuliani or that scary chef Giada de Laurentiis. You don't actually say "Jee-oo-lee-an-ee", just "Joo-lee-an-ee" -- the I is for consonant-hardening purposes only.
(In Spanish, a C before and E or an I is a soft C, so if you want the hard-C sound, you have to use QU. But a C before an A, O or U is a hard C, so if you want it to be soft you use a Z. Italian is way simpler.)
Polter-Cow - Jan 10, 2008 8:47:15 am PST #4668 of 28342
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Let's all just switch to Esperanto.