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We know words. (Original Post)
In_The_Wind
Jul 2016
OP
Perhaps Trump's University should have taught classes on how to avoid plagiarizing.
In_The_Wind
Jul 2016
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malthaussen
(18,477 posts)1. "Borrow?"
Using words without attribution is stealing, not borrowing. (OTOH, as Picasso said, "Inferior painters borrow, geniuses steal." But Pablo is not, on balance, an example of virtue)
I just find it odd that so many cartoonists and commenters won't call a spade a spade, but insist on using weasel-words. This has been a consistent practice throughout Mr Trump's candidacy.
-- Mal
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)2. Perhaps Trump's University should have taught classes on how to avoid plagiarizing.

When I Googled plagiarizing this was one of the images shown on the image page.
malthaussen
(18,477 posts)3. It's really pretty silly, IMO.
The phrases Mrs Trump lifted are so banal and platitudinous (is there such a word? There ought to be), that it's ridiculous to make an uproar about it. Meanwhile, the substance of most of the speeches at the RNC is about as bigoted and un-American as can be.
-- Mal
