Re: Robin Cook: Adulterer


"Ian Davis" <ijdavis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> In article <42ff2e02@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> lw <wakefield0ground@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> So would it be more humble of me to not use www.dictionary.com
>>> constantly.
>>>
>>> Ian
>>
>> I don't see how that follows. Do you mean using it to check the
>> meanings
>>of words you propose to use in text, or do you mean finding paragraphs or
>>lengthy statements in it and then copying them into text without
>>reference?
>>I was referring to the 2nd of those two possibilities- suggesting if one
>>*did* find a passage worth quoting, that one attribute the source. I don't
>>really feel basic word definitions- unless they are complex-need
>>attributions. (If we all did that ad absurdem we could not type a word
>>without appending the source where we first learned its meaning- and
>>conversations would go- *nowhere*)
>>
>> That being said, I do remember posts recently where the dictionary-
>>online or otherwise- *was* cited as the source. lw
>>
>
>
> I was reflecting on the issue of how some like to quote the words of
> others
> presumably the better to appear wise and knowledgable, and to effectively
> present a distortion of themselves. And applying that reflection to
> myself
> I saw that I was very careful to try and spell things correctly by using
> external sources I do not cite... for example I have no idea how to spell
> plagerize. How am I supposed to know that it is spelt plagiarize, without
> looking it up. Is there not some deceit involved in not indicating that
> I use external tools to correct what I write, for I do it to improve
> peoples
> opinion of me, and what I post.
>
> Ian

I think many folks *do* cite the dictionary..if only to distinguish one
from another. However, we might be talking apples and oranges.
Dictionaries are reference tools to aid us in our ability to communicate.
It is assumed (I think) that the definitions and spellings pointed to in
references like dictionaries, thessaurum (?) etc. are reached by collective,
social concensus...in English at least, since we don't have an Academie
Francaise ;-). As far as I know those references that help us spell
correctly and use words correctly are not subject to attribution. I could
be wrong.


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