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	cesare 2003-03-26 03:16 am UTC (link)
	however, it lacks the immeidate pathos that those authors tend to invoke... Hee! Pseudo-literary critic-ese sounds a lot more convincing when you spell "immediate" right. (Reply to this)

	um...explain to me the tenets of plagiarism again... dafnap 2003-03-26 03:18 am UTC (link)
	Do you have to name the source of inspiration or the title of a piece? That seems pretty innocuous, especially "inspiration" because that's tenuous at best. Decidedly odd. -dafnap (Reply to this)

kyuuketsukirui
2003-03-26 03:30 am UTC (link)

Grr. Can't figure out how to reply when there's no reply link, but I'm replying to the above post:

Do you have to name the source of inspiration or the title of a piece? That seems pretty innocuous, especially "inspiration" because that's tenuous at best.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Especially since I checked the original post and the title of her story is "Famous Last Words" which seems to me like one of those phrases that's just sort of in the general consciousness. Everyone knows it. I, personally, did not know it was the title of a book. Eh, but whatever.

They mentioned intellislash, which made me think of intellicocks, so it's all good.

Grace

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	sorchar 2003-03-26 09:10 am UTC (link)
	Reminds me of the debate that pops up occasionally on boards where there are a lot of newbie fic writers..."You stole my title!" "No I didn't, I made it up!" "I had it first!" etc... sigh (Reply to this)(Thread)

	pradaloz 2003-03-26 07:37 pm UTC (link)
	And then there are the ones who claim to have copyrighted their characters' names... "u can't use 'Alaranthamirianielle' as your chara's name!!!!!!111 That's MY chara's name!!!!111 i've COPYWRITED it!" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: sorchar 2003-03-26 10:22 pm UTC (link)
	Oh GOD yes. I just dealt with that on one board recently. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	kyuuketsukirui 2003-03-26 10:13 pm UTC (link)
	Sort of like the "You stole my Draco icon! Even though it's the official pic and it's plastered everywhere on the entire net, I know you stole mineeeeeee!" Grace (Reply to this)(Parent)

	talkingsock 2003-03-26 07:04 pm UTC (link)
	snicker I like the way the troll then turns on everyone else in the thread, is banned, then comes back as Anonymous. It's so comforting to know that no matter what, trolling never dies. You can beat them, bribe them, starve them, and yet they troll on. (Reply to this)

gairid
2003-03-26 07:25 pm UTC (link)

Wow...way to troll, whoever that was!

I never heard of Timothy Findley before this, but isn't it possible that *he* used "Famous Last Words" because he'd heard it bandied about before? I am not interested enough to go research the whole thing, really.

And who cares? It's such a common phrase that it seems like it would be like a public domain thing or something..still, what do I know? I'm here for the wank!

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bitchysmurf
2003-03-26 07:43 pm UTC (link)

This whole wank makes my head hurt. If I recall correctly from last night, the deleted post in response to "And I still miss TWaV, btw." was "Who are you?" And then it was deleted for being insulting?

*doesn't get it*

And, wah, I think it'd be a whole lot funnier if I knew what the hell they were talking about. Seems like the phatphatkitty person keeps threatening to reveal something and then... doesn't.

I give this wank 3 and three quater stars.

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	threegoldfish 2003-03-26 07:52 pm UTC (link)
	Is that out of four or five? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: bitchysmurf 2003-03-26 07:52 pm UTC (link)
	Out of 10 ;) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	threegoldfish 2003-03-26 07:56 pm UTC (link)
	Oooo, burn. You're not a figure skating judge, are you? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: bitchysmurf 2003-03-26 07:57 pm UTC (link)
	Hey! How'd you know? No giving out personal information! ;-) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	fearthainn 2003-03-26 08:02 pm UTC (link)
	And now it's protected. Woe! (Reply to this)(Thread)

	nevadafighter 2003-03-26 11:07 pm UTC (link)
	And I wasn't done reading it, dammit! throws a tantrum (Reply to this)(Parent)

kimera
2003-03-27 12:09 am UTC (link)

Okay, the journal entry is protected now... but am I to understand that the fic writer used the title "Famous Last Words"? And was accused of plagiarising Findley because of it? If so, I find that amusing, as I was once accused of doing the same thing in an essay about Findley, and my instructor tried to fail me for it. I appealed, and won, because "dishonourably discharged" is NOT a phrase that was unique to the story, damnit. Neither is "famous last words" unique, really.

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	lexin 2003-03-27 09:36 am UTC (link)
	Oh, drat. Again it's gone while I was asleep. Sigh. All this wank and I miss it, I'll have to give up sleep. (Reply to this)