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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN class=535304412-16072005></SPAN>H<SPAN
class=535304412-16072005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=3>ere is another
peril of lexicography and dictionary-making taken
from</FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN class=535304412-16072005></SPAN><SPAN
class=535304412-16072005></SPAN><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT
size=3><SPAN class=535304412-16072005>American wit </SPAN>A<SPAN
class=535304412-16072005>mbrose Bierce's cynical classic <EM>The
Devil's Dictionary</EM>:</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><TT><FONT color=#0000ff>DICTIONARY, n. A malevolent literary device for
cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic.
</FONT></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT></TT> </DIV>
<DIV><TT></TT><TT><SPAN class=535304412-16072005><FONT color=#0000ff>And here
is Bierce's definition on "plagiarism":</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
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color=#0000ff></FONT></SPAN></TT> </DIV>
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<DIV>PLAGIARISM: A literary coincidence compounded of a discreditable priority
and an honourable subsequence. </DIV></SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=535304412-16072005>PLAGIARIZE: To take the thought or
style of another writer whom one has never, never read. </SPAN></TT></DIV>
<DIV><TT><SPAN class=535304412-16072005><I>(Ambrose Bierce: </I>The Enlarged
Devil's Dictionary)</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff><SPAN
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Other definitions or quotes:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DD>Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. (unknown author)
<DD>Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.<EM> (Samuel Taylor
Coleridge)</EM>
<DD>Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.<SPAN
class=535304412-16072005> (</SPAN><EM>Benjamin Disraeli<SPAN
class=535304412-16072005>)</SPAN></EM>
<DD><EM><SPAN class=535304412-16072005></SPAN></EM>Self-plagiarism is
style. <SPAN class=535304412-16072005>(Alfred Hitchcock)</SPAN>
<DD><SPAN class=535304412-16072005></SPAN>To steal ideas from one person is
plagiarism - to steal from many is research.<SPAN
class=535304412-16072005>(Steven Wright)</SPAN>
<DD><SPAN class=535304412-16072005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff></FONT></SPAN> </DD></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV><SPAN class=535304412-16072005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>Can you come
up with other original (witty) definitions of "plagiarism"? </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=535304412-16072005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=535304412-16072005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>Fritz
Goerling</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><TT>Some of you may find this blog entry on plagiarism in some
lexicographical <BR>work interesting, or at least good advice to remember when
using some <BR>dictionaries:<BR><BR><A
href="http://www.languagehat.com/archives/001988.php">http://www.languagehat.com/archives/001988.php</A><BR><BR>Wayne<BR>-----<BR>Wayne
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