tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9114540523155701787.post8508125275483573541..comments2024-03-29T13:34:38.526+05:30Comments on Philosophic Psychedelia!: S.I.N. (Shit In News)Sayak Shomehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13138862278516673530noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9114540523155701787.post-84820936019877767632010-05-02T14:39:14.515+05:302010-05-02T14:39:14.515+05:30Using someone elses work is not plagiarism. Procla...Using someone elses work is not plagiarism. Proclaiming that it is mine is. For example when I write in English I don't say that this is my language, I have invented this, or name it anything but English.<br />By what you say the whole process of learning and knowing, precisely education is a hoax and mere imitations of previous works. All subsequent inventions have been made making use of previous inventions. Hence only the Earth, or the Universe or God knows what is the ONLY invention. The rest are plagiarisms.Sayak Shomehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13138862278516673530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9114540523155701787.post-43249866687676716122010-05-02T14:19:59.459+05:302010-05-02T14:19:59.459+05:30If plagiarism is the "use or close imitation ...If plagiarism is the "use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one's own original work.", any other sleuth created by another author is plagiarism, any other couple but engaging in sexual intercourse is plagiarism. Using chisels and hammers, paintbrushes and colours, they're all plagiarism. Strictly, keeping to the definition, they all are.<br />I agree that if everyone had to invent their own language, the very purpose of language would be disrupted. But, that doesn't make the use of a language, invented by pre-historic men anything but plagiarism.<br />We can postpone the fight. :P ;)T. Mukherjeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17097646879283934280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9114540523155701787.post-36091271613247877542010-05-02T11:04:38.756+05:302010-05-02T11:04:38.756+05:30*When we learn and use the English alphabet never ...*When we learn and use the English alphabet never for once do we say that 'it had been created by us.'Sayak Shomehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13138862278516673530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9114540523155701787.post-84546905526606711262010-05-02T10:59:28.239+05:302010-05-02T10:59:28.239+05:30Plagiarism, as defined in the 1995 Random House Co...<i>Plagiarism, as defined in the 1995 Random House Compact Unabridged Dictionary, is the "use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one's own original work."</i><br /><br />When we learn and use the English alphabet never for once do we say that the work is our own. A language is a tool of expression just like chisels and hammers are tools for crafting objects; or like the paintbrushes and colours are tools for painting. Their usage can't be termed as plagiarism. As using information from books are concerned, if something is directly taken from a book, they are written within quotes and credits are given to the original author and here too, even if we don't give the credits we don't claim to have invented them.<br />We use Newton's laws of motion but don't say that the laws had been formulated by us.<br />Moreover, by what you say, if each person had to invent a new language for himself, the very concept of language being a means of communication would have been largely disrupted.<br />I am not against borrowing ideas from a source and expressing them in your own flavour.<br />Plagiarism is a different thing.<br />Just because Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had created a sleuth, doesn't mean any other sleuth created by another author in future is plagiarised.<br />Adam and Eve engaged in sexual intercourse which resulted in a baby being born doesn't make their successors doing the same being termed as plagiarism.Sayak Shomehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13138862278516673530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9114540523155701787.post-87855653753276003792010-05-02T00:59:12.263+05:302010-05-02T00:59:12.263+05:30Plagiarizing is everyone's cup of tea. That...Plagiarizing is everyone's cup of tea. That's the reason I'm never against it. The entire concept of education is plagiarising, legally. Why else are we made to learn A,B,C,D,E....? Why don't we have the task of inventing a new alphabet, ourselves? A new language, on our own? Anything. I read in a Russian book (Durgapur e gele mone korash, niye ashbo) that in a school, the students were given an assignment to design a new language (that could be decoded). It was an ingenius thing. Everything we learn, has been discovered/invented by someone else. Everything. So, plagiarising is more than justified.T. Mukherjeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17097646879283934280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9114540523155701787.post-34526170316406468462010-04-30T20:16:35.873+05:302010-04-30T20:16:35.873+05:30Yes. Good point. I need to revise my posts thoroug...Yes. Good point. I need to revise my posts thoroughly before publishing them. It's completely original. Why else would I write it in my blog? Plagiarizing is not my cup of tea. Had I taken excerpts from elsewhere I would have given them their due credits.Sayak Shomehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13138862278516673530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9114540523155701787.post-21689120841257705482010-04-30T19:02:39.801+05:302010-04-30T19:02:39.801+05:30If it's completely original, it's great wo...If it's completely original, it's great work. Though the part of the conversation since the Idea part, seemed to be unnecessarily dragging on the same topic, but never mind. The beginning was good. The end was good. What else can you ask for? Ahh yes, re-read your posts before "posting" them. A lot of punctuation, and grammatical mistakes. I know I make them too. But we enevr lose a chance to criticise, do we? :P ;)T. Mukherjeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17097646879283934280noreply@blogger.com