Editing 2885: Spelling
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+ | {{incomplete|Created by a PLAGIARISED WIKIHOW ARTICLE - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} | ||
− | + | Some words are difficult to remember how to spel, but Google and other search engines have autocorrect when you search misspelled words which will return results with the correct spelling, so some people look up their best guess of the spelling on Google, then copy the corrected version and pasted it into their document. | |
− | Cueball | + | Cueball is having a moral dilemma about whether it is okay to do that for the word 'plagiarism' (taking other's work without permission or credits) because he thinks that doing so would be plagiarism, and presumably undermine the point he might be intending to make (e.g. "I don't support plagiarism", "I have never committed plagiarism in my life" or even "To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research."<!-- Yes, I directly ripped that last quote from... not gonna say... ;) -->). This doesn't really make sense as a specific dilemna. If it's wrong to do this for this word, it would be equally wrong to do it for any other word - the meaning of the word in question has no particular relevance to the ethics of the case. |
− | + | The title text is referring to a similar moral dilemma, in which Cueball says he tends to misspell words because he would rather not "copy from the dictionary," considering that plagiarism. This is against the point of the dictionary, however, which is to serve as a reference precisely for people to look up what words are in the language, how they are spelled, defined, derived, and so on. The individual words being defined in the dictionary, by definition, cannot actually be the copyrighted intellectual property of a specific person, since they represent words already in use, rather than original work. Thus it wouldn't actually be plagiarism to copy the correct spelling from there. Only if you were to copy the accompanying entry without attribution would there be ethical and legal issues. But if one was really paranoid about avoiding plagiarism, one could always quote the source of each word they copied out of the dictionary, listing which dictionary they copied the word or words out of. | |
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− | + | ==Transcript== | |
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− | + | [Cueball and Megan are looking at a laptop being operated by Cueball] | |
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− | + | Megan: When I can't spell a word I usually just google and copy and paste it from the results. | |
− | + | Cueball: Yeah, but I can't do that '''HERE!!''' | |
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+ | [Caption below the panel:] | ||
+ | Why spelling "plagiarism" is especially hard | ||
{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
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