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Is it Possible to Plaiarise Yourself?

So, your saying it really matters what I say on the Internet. If don't punctuate or spell correctly on Facebook that's going to make a flying fuck. Nope, it's the Internet, I don't take it to be serius. If I'm talking to a friend and I use ain't instead of is not, it doesnt effect my life. If I'm talking to someone and they next to me, who is a complete stranger thinks I'm stupid because of the way I talk, I don't care. Fuck them for being so judgmental, they don't know me and I don't care about their life and what they think. I see people on this board making snarky coments about peoples spelling or some other bullshit and I think, who are you and why should I care. Am I writing a paper? No.Am I at a job interview? Nope, so it doesn't matter. I ask peoples opinions on here because I want to know what people think, but in reality, I don't know you and you don't know me and my opinion doesn't really matter does it? None of ours does. So there's really only one person's opinion who I really give a shit about is my wife. The rest is just chit chat. You think what we talk about on the Internet effects Antibes real lives? Maybe if you were a politician and tweete, " I hate black people" or something like that.So, that's what I mean by who cares.
 
So, your saying it really matters what I say on the Internet. If don't punctuate or spell correctly on Facebook that's going to make a flying fuck. Nope, it's the Internet, I don't take it to be serius. If I'm talking to a friend and I use ain't instead of is not, it doesnt effect my life. If I'm talking to someone and they next to me, who is a complete stranger thinks I'm stupid because of the way I talk, I don't care. Fuck them for being so judgmental, they don't know me and I don't care about their life and what they think. I see people on this board making snarky coments about peoples spelling or some other bullshit and I think, who are you and why should I care. Am I writing a paper? No.Am I at a job interview? Nope, so it doesn't matter. I ask peoples opinions on here because I want to know what people think, but in reality, I don't know you and you don't know me and my opinion doesn't really matter does it? None of ours does. So there's really only one person's opinion who I really give a shit about is my wife. The rest is just chit chat. You think what we talk about on the Internet effects Antibes real lives? Maybe if you were a politician and tweete, " I hate black people" or something like that.So, that's what I mean by who cares.

Then don't expect anyone here to take you seriously or give two shits about what you say. :bolian:
 
I hate the excuse of "it's the internet so fuck trying to make it legible" excuse. I'll openly admit to not being anywhere near a perfect poster when it comes to grammar or spelling on-line but I do at least try. You deserve credit for not speaking in l33t and for at least trying to make paragraphs, sentences and not typing in all lower-case (or, worse, all caps.)

But between the thread title, the first post and further post you spelled "plagiarize"/"plagiarism" something like five different ways! There's typos, there's mistakes, there's simply not knowing how to spell it and then there's just absurdity. Hell there's plenty of time when I'm typing and I've "thought out" the sentence but somehow between thinking it and typing it a word gets lost. Shit happens.

At least, try, man.

Getting certain words mixed up is common enough in a place where you're not doing much if any editing is common (it's/its, you're/your, effect/affect, etc.) and it can be presumed than when you write in a more formal manner you go through a better editing process. Hell, I write myself and I've got a decent-sized novel finished but am a long way from trying to submit it because I'm going back through it, making a second draft and find myself practically writing entire sections over again to form better clarity and to correct mistakes.

It happens, it's why there is an editing process. But at least try when posting on the internet. The "plagiarism" thing is just inexcusable.

Take this recent post of yours for example:

So, your saying it really matters what I say on the Internet. If don't punctuate or spell correctly on Facebook that's going to make a flying fuck. Nope, it's the Internet, I don't take it to be serius. If I'm talking to a friend and I use ain't instead of is not, it doesnt effect my life. If I'm talking to someone and they next to me, who is a complete stranger thinks I'm stupid because of the way I talk, I don't care. Fuck them for being so judgmental, they don't know me and I don't care about their life and what they think. I see people on this board making snarky coments about peoples spelling or some other bullshit and I think, who are you and why should I care. Am I writing a paper? No.Am I at a job interview? Nope, so it doesn't matter. I ask peoples opinions on here because I want to know what people think, but in reality, I don't know you and you don't know me and my opinion doesn't really matter does it? None of ours does. So there's really only one person's opinion who I really give a shit about is my wife. The rest is just chit chat. You think what we talk about on the Internet effects Antibes real lives? Maybe if you were a politician and tweete, " I hate black people" or something like that.So, that's what I mean by who cares.

Those are just the ones I picked, there's plenty more that maybe a bit more forgivable. Missing the occasional apostrophe in a contraction is going to happen, missing a possessive apostrophe is going to happen (though you basically miss all of them) hell even the dreaded "plural apostrophe" is going to happen from time to time (although I loathe that particular mistake.)

But, dude, when you spell "anybody's" as "Antibes" (note the capitalization and that the word is closer to "antibodies" than it is "anybody's) then you're not even trying to make sense.

Man up, accept that the school doesn't want you submitting the same damn work you already submitted, that they improperly are calling that plagiarism and write a new paper on another topic. Perhaps on, as I suggest above, one on plagiarism.
 
From reading this thread, I've come to the conclusion that giving any response other than one that confirms the opinion of the OP is likely to be a waste of time. He's in denial. Next comes anger. Whether he'll ever reach the bargaining, depression, and acceptance phases of the Kübler-Ross cycle is debatable.
 
Welcome to Level 2 of the Internet. Unfortunately, the princess is in another castle...

You could cut and paste most of that post into ANY thread in MISC or TNZ. That's how we roll here. :)
 
From reading this thread, I've come to the conclusion that giving any response other than one that confirms the opinion of the OP is likely to be a waste of time. He's in denial. Next comes anger. Whether he'll ever reach the bargaining, depression, and acceptance phases of the Kübler-Ross cycle is debatable.

I think you may be right.
 
Unless you are a professor at a liberal arts college where the emphasis is more on teaching, the amount of time and effort you put into teaching is just a matter of personal and professional pride. It matters little beyond that. Frankly, I love to teach. That was the draw of the profession for me. But I think I'm an exception. I know a lot of other colleagues who find teaching the bane of their existence. Don't believe me? Ask their teaching assistants.


This is why when I was a full-time academic, I quickly made sure I generated enough revenue to buy myself out of teaching.
 
Please, Doctor, tell me more about what I was thinking. :rolleyes:

In reality, I agreed with your statement about the OP, made a Nintendo joke, and then said that half the threads on this board contain an OP that gets mad and ignores anything but posts that agree with him.

What was going on in YOUR version of what was in my head when I wrote that? :wtf:
 
^ As a totally disinterested 3rd party, that's what I thought was going on, too. I don't know where the wires got crossed.
 
Please, Doctor, tell me more about what I was thinking. :rolleyes:

In reality, I agreed with your statement about the OP, made a Nintendo joke, and then said that half the threads on this board contain an OP that gets mad and ignores anything but posts that agree with him.

What was going on in YOUR version of what was in my head when I wrote that? :wtf:

Sorry, I don't know anything about Nintendo consoles so I probably took the princess comment the wrong way. I was being a silly ass.
 
Fair enough. Maybe it didn't come across clearly enough, but the joke was essentially "congrats for beating Level 1 of the Internet, please continue to Level 2".

The bit about the Princess being in another castle was from the Super Mario Brothers game. After you beat the boss in the castle at the end of each level, some little douche wearing a mushroom would come out and congratulate you on beating the boss, but tell you that the princess was in another castle, so move on to the next level and try again :)
 
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