Well, @stansolo I want to let you know, if you hold classes with face to face people, or even wish to e-mail your students, please feel free to copy/paste any of my posts for printing. Those on English Language. These are not talking heads lectures, like grammar school, but Hints for 'correct' . . . clip around the ear son, if you don't pay attention . . . usage, made to me by WW1 vets in 50's and 60's - to make something of yourself boy! -
--As to plagiarism or copyright, well the old books they showed me were from an old English publishing firm defunct since before WW2. And if written in correct grammar, a sentence of positive meaning that teaches, can hardly be plagiarism, because the manner in which it is written would allow very little leeway to say it any other way. I was used to set a problem in debate: - using a dictionary and a thesaurus, write this positive affirmation in any words you can find, in a manner that clearly has the same meaning when spoken.
--You are utterly charming, warm, radiant and dynamic. --
In English properly constructed, it becomes increasing difficult to do so, when the original sentence is clear and concise. So, wherein therefore is plagiarism¿ In the manner of speech, or the copy that is 'claimed' as own¿ A speech given by me, copying W. Churchill word for word, and claimed as mine, is obvious plagiarism, but a well constructed sentence giving the clear concise instruction, I would not claim, as it is instruction for better usage of the language, and using a speech or part thereof of W. Churchill would be a good example, within a lesson, and referenced.
I am rusty, fifty years of trucking on, but I hope you got my drift.
These Hints, were good for me then, and helped me all my life. So, please copy/paste and print for any student you deem in need (of a clip around the ear 😉), but it might be good for us all if you should print in top right corner or bottom left -
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Thank-you
Keep on keeping on 😇
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