From: rigelau@yahoo.com.au   
      
   Marco van de Voort  wrote in   
   news:slrndr2gra.ep9.marcov@snail.stack.nl:   
      
   > On 2005-12-27, Alan Brown  wrote:   
   >> Marco van de Voort  wrote in   
   >> news:slrndr06qh.2tuk.marcov@snail.stack.nl:   
   >>   
   >>> On 2005-12-26, Alan Brown  wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>> However, it should be obvious to most people that plagiarism. legal   
   >>>> or not, is not ethical and is certainly not acceptable behaviour in   
   >>>> all academic environments that I know of.   At the University I   
   >>>> worked for, plagiarism would get the student dismissed instantly.   
   >>>   
   >>> I know what plagiarism is, etc etc. I just wanted to stress that the   
   >>> word "theft" doesn't apply. I prefer to keep using the descriptions   
   in   
   >>> lawbooks (and probably in your universities statutes), which is   
   >>> "PLAGIARISM", and not theft or Intellectual Dishonesty. Even   
   >>> "copy-cat" is IMHO more correct than thief.   
   >>   
   >> The Dictionary reference I quoted determines that the word "theft"   
   does   
   >> apply in the etymological definition of "plagiarism".   
   >>   
   >> In Roget's Thesaurus the word "plagiarism" is listed under the section   
   >> (788) headed "theft".   
   >   
   > The problem with the short definitions in dictionaries is that they   
   work   
   > based on analogy to keep them short, not on correct/formal definition.   
   >   
   >   
      
   I guess that dictionaries are where we start when we need to know the   
   meaning of a word - whatever the drawbacks of using a dictionary are.   
      
   Long or short, "plagiarism" is "theft" and both are crimes.   
      
   I guess we have done this subject to death.  So I wish you a Happy New   
   Year (using the short dictionary meanings of the words)  :D   
      
   Alan   
      
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