Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 09:26:16 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Plagiarism (Was: FreeBSD spokesman) Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20010706092422.045f4bf0@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20010706170429.M99228@lpt.ens.fr> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010706071808.04536ef0@localhost> <20010626174756.A61831@blackhelicopters.org> <20010702211810.B325@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20010703141550.045f5340@localhost> <20010705123729.M371@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20010705125211.04638740@localhost> <20010705224626.O47721@lpt.ens.fr> <4.3.2.7.2.20010705163434.04524b00@localhost> <20010706103808.A99228@lpt.ens.fr> <20010706151421.I99228@lpt.ens.fr> <4.3.2.7.2.20010706071808.04536ef0@localhost>
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At 09:04 AM 7/6/2001, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: >"Use" is not defined in the second part, but if we take the meaning >to be the same as in the first clause, the meaning is "use as one's >own", not "quote for reference". The online Merriam-Webster definition I cited, does not have the word "use" in the first sense but is otherwise quite similar. >(Aside: Webster has mutilated the English language -- or American >language, as some editions call it -- in so many other respects that >perhaps a little more doesn't hurt.... Argumentum ad hominem. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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