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Is your Mom proud
Boy were our parents wrong. They said “Don’t use the calculator,” feeling it’ll hurt our multiplication abilities. **** – look at how much we (mostly people who know better) use the Net to cheat. It’s uncanny. And that burns me up.
I just spent a full two weeks at my PR firm asking people to “write in your own words,” and yet every single guy or gal uses entire phrases from the ole InterWeb. It seems like just cutting and pasting is the only way to get things done. I’m not sure when this began.
Perhaps when low-hanging successes became the norm?
You can take an entire phrase and toss it on Google with quotation marks; voila, you see where it came from. But stealing fine sentences to fill in a gap (or just stealing) seems to be the norm. Being caught does not matter—hopefully NOT being caught is what does.
It’s a world where shortcuts exist for us to take advantage of, or that’s what I am starting to believe. Yet if it’s all about the written word, in order for people to stop cutting and pasting their lives away…they need the self-confidence that, uh-huh, their thoughts are valuable—and should be trusted.
On Thursday, I saw one of my esteemed staff cut and paste a report to a client, no less, from one of those firms that creates a video of a seconds-long appearance on TV. Why the guy couldn’t just explain what it was himself is a mystery. The part that made me shake my head Bobble style is at the end this company tells us “The PR value here is $328,” meaning that if we’d paid for five seconds’ worth of commercial that’s what it would have cost said client.
Now, everyone knows metrics like these are useless (It’s PR, not advertising) and so, to make a long story longer, it now is obvious this late 20’s fast-mover didn’t bug himself to see what he pasted in his report. D’oh! Why bother reading, right? Surely the company knows what they’re saying.
The point I keep trying to make it to anyone who’ll listen, is that your words are what matters—not others’. And now worse proof of civilization being dumber than ever:
I hired two smart young gentlemen to help with some research on a very complicated project…. lots of small chapters about an upcoming terrific period. Every single day I had to say “in your own words,” since Wikipedia makes it so easy to … say it together, steal. For a book? I mean, it’s hard enough to keep information straight without having to worry that a book has tons of found info in it.
And the older generation worried that calculators would deplete our smarts? Big laugh now. What’s good for the soul, in my non-humble feeling, is when you go into your own head and create a thought, then put it on paper. After all, that’s all we’ve got to proffer: opinions, and maybe an ethical compunction to do the right thing.
Let’s make our Moms glad those snazzy multiplication devices didn’t start us on a slippery slope. And stop the cutting and pasting crap!
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In academic circles you are not accepted or listened to
until you have a degree. Thats how I know you are not university educated. People on computers cannot prove their qualifications, so they cut and paste the words of qualified people, thus adding authenticity to the subject matter. Some just paste the site address of the qualified person.
The idea is to find truth. By the looks of your posts you are not concerned about truth.
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Re: Truth
I don't care about the truth on a forum who's initial function was to allow people to swear at each other for no apparent reason and enjoy doing so.
I won't question your qualifications simply because your posts make you seem uneducated so you have to cut and paste.
If you live in Coventry then no doubt you will have heard of bablake Grammar School and know of iys merits and achievements.
I am an Old Bablake Boy who attended University in England,Canada and South Africa
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Re: Is your Mom proud
So!
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1/14/2009, 12:46 am
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There are plenty of posts under attack that are my own work, You dont want to debate any of them.
Why dont you take your filthy language to a Canadian forum I dont like you putting Coventry down.
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I will do as i please,when i please.
You claim it's your own work?
Please wake up ans stop with the lies.
What has Canada got to do with this?
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Recognition
You have no knowledge of verse. Anyone who has indulged in verse would recognise another poets
work. Who's work is it then? Actually I dont write very good verse.
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Sorry i was slow reading all of your post because it lacked substance and common sense.
Coventry is a carbuncle on the bottom of England.
Anyone with any sense has or will be leaving as soon as they can.
You now claim to be a poet?
What's next,a rocket scientist of heart transplant surgeon?
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Who's work is it then?
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The author's whose names you cut and paste
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