It was like watching a lazy student reading a report he just copied from Wikipedia.

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7. Yes

I did not mean to say his speech sounded like Wikipedia, which I consider a great reference.

In the old days we would have said World Book or Britanica.

What I was alluding to was students who did not research and write reports, but rather just copied some reference verbatim, and then read from them seeing the words for the first time and struggling through a subject they had no knowledge of.