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In_The_Wind

(72,300 posts) Fri Jul 22, 2016, 11:31 AM Jul 2016

We know words.

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We know words. (Original Post) In_The_Wind Jul 2016 OP

"Borrow?" malthaussen Jul 2016 #1

Perhaps Trump's University should have taught classes on how to avoid plagiarizing. In_The_Wind Jul 2016 #2

It's really pretty silly, IMO. malthaussen Jul 2016 #3

malthaussen

(17,195 posts)

1. "Borrow?"

Reply to In_The_Wind (Original post)

Fri Jul 22, 2016, 11:37 AM

Jul 2016

Using words without attribution is stealing, not borrowing. (OTOH, as Picasso said, "Inferior painters borrow, geniuses steal." But Pablo is not, on balance, an example of virtue)

I just find it odd that so many cartoonists and commenters won't call a spade a spade, but insist on using weasel-words. This has been a consistent practice throughout Mr Trump's candidacy.

-- Mal

In_The_Wind

(72,300 posts)

2. Perhaps Trump's University should have taught classes on how to avoid plagiarizing.

Reply to malthaussen (Reply #1)

Fri Jul 22, 2016, 12:25 PM

Jul 2016

When I Googled plagiarizing this was one of the images shown on the image page.

malthaussen

(17,195 posts)

3. It's really pretty silly, IMO.

Reply to In_The_Wind (Reply #2)

Fri Jul 22, 2016, 12:34 PM

Jul 2016

The phrases Mrs Trump lifted are so banal and platitudinous (is there such a word? There ought to be), that it's ridiculous to make an uproar about it. Meanwhile, the substance of most of the speeches at the RNC is about as bigoted and un-American as can be.

-- Mal

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