I get the feeling you're trying to brag about graduate from a college in a language you were born into. You can be a ninth grade English teacher, not a rocket scientist.
No. I'm not trying to brag. If I were, I'd have given myself a much more dignified degree. I was just trying to give some credence to what I was saying :/
On the note of plagiarism, wouldn't using someone else photo's, drawing's, or art work also fall into this category? As many are using such things in there signatures and posting on a regular basis? Personally I see no reason to enforce anything like that in a forum, but hey if it makes you feel good do it.
@lyanna- passing a piece of art, be it literature or an .img, is unacceptable. It happens more often in ff because of the nature of the forum. People want to impress the others by quoting chapter one of "The Brothers Karamazov" or some such. And that's not cool. Posting up a pic as a sig isn't quite the same.
Nice thread belle Wish you would share a story with us though... I would love to read on of them, well keep up the good work!
Fact = if it doesn't have the little c with the circle around it for copyright ... It's fair game Fact = it's only plagiarism if your caught, else its a work of art !!
PLAGIARIZE - pla·gia·rize - To steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source. Intransitively - To commit literary theft : present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source. Didn't see anything about a "little c".
Haha the little c has nothing to do with the meaning off the word, the little c is an action you do to claim something as your own so no one else can claim it. It's called Copyright look that up, and I wasn't being serious about those 2 facts, they were just bad trolling jokes
But since you since your using a dictionary to attempt yo troll me, ill help you = The copyright symbol, or copyright sign, designated by © (a circled "C"), is the symbol used in copyright notices for works other than sound recordings (which are indicated with the ℗ symbol). The use of the symbol is described in United States copyright law,[1] and, internationally, by the Universal Copyright Convention.[2] The C stands for copyright. Basically it claims you work as your own so if it's plagiarized you get to sue! Get rich scheme ftw!
I myself completely agree. I have made a story, near 50 pages long, as an optional assignment. My teacher was amazed, but, when she was halfway through, someone took it off her desk. days later she told me it had been turned in for a student, who i shall not name, as an essay he had been missing. It is acts such as this that infuriate me. As you have said, if soneone puts hard work in sonething, only for another to claim it as their own, is unfair. Where is the justice? What has become of my fellow peers? bulldog127
i agreed with belle. also a great solution is to go to plaguirizing threads and present link to your thread. dates mean alot.
Hey belle first rule of writing, heave something interesting and original to say since you have neither, your literary career will be much the same as your forum career, worthless and full of **** I am calling it here and now, today 19.5.12, you will never, ever, make any notable contribution in the literary world. Plagiarism. I believe that includes taking the wisdom of other KAW players and pretending it is your own. Belle, you don't know ****, you will never know ****, and you are full of **** I look forward to stepping over you as you lay in the gutter where you belong