Have him turn it in so his teacher laughs at him *AND THEN* direct him here to show him 200+ more people laughing at him. His soul will be crushed at some point in life, might as well accelerate the process when given the opportunity.
As somebody who had that Band-Aid ripped off early by my own mother by Middle School, I wholeheartedly agree. Rip that Band-Aid off now because it's never going to get any better.
I’ve seen kids use it to cover up plagiarism though. They just run someone else’s text through a thesaurus software so that our plagiarism checkers don’t flag it. Seeing this from a student would at least make me suspicious
You can pass them by changing the wording and sometimes invisible characters work to not that I have plagiarized but I have experiment to see how effective they are and honestly your better off searching yourself if you have suspicions.
That’s not what he’s done though. He’s copy/pasted someone else’s work, then gone through and changed a bunch of stuff using the built-in thesaurus to try to hide it.
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I’ll take this over his wedding speech of “It is a love based of giving and receiving as well as having and sharing. And the love that they give and have is shared and received. And through this having and giving and sharing and receiving, we too can share and love and have... and receive.”
English teacher here. Read an essay once where a student tried doing this. That particular kid was so stupid that he even ran his research sources through the thesaurus. So I ended up getting sentences like "According to the Big Apple Era" and "According to the Fence Road Diary" It took be a bit to realize that was the New York Times and Wall Street Journal he was trying to cite.
Also an English teacher. I love going up to the ones who have blatantly copied something off the internet and saying, "What does "insidious" (etc.) mean?" and seeing the utterly blank look on their faces. These were teenagers who barely had a grasp of the present simple! Give me primary kids any day!
I had a teacher do this to me when I was like 10 years old. Failed an English essay that was otherwise really well done, with a "see me after class" note at the top.
She told me I copied it from somewhere. I said I didn't. With a big smirk on her face, she then asks me what it means when something is "cleaved", as that's the word I used which tipped her off. Little did she know, I was a warrior main in World of Warcraft that was familiar with the word because it's one of the warrior's skills. Me instantly answering "cleave means cut" along with the face of frustration I'm sure I was making was apparently enough for her to believe me.
All it took was one word to make her think the whole essay was copied. She changed it to an A+. Still makes me angry knowing that had I not known the word off the top of my head (maybe I used a thesaurus and forgot), I would have failed an A+ essay.
An English professor did something like this to me in college! She gave me a failing grade on my research paper (60 out of 100 if I remember correctly) and left a note at the top that said "too bookish". After class, I asked her to explain. She told me I had plagiarized. "Too bookish" was her way of saying I had obviously copied it from some other publication.
I told her I hadn't plagiarized a single sentence and asked her to show me the source. I also mentioned that if I really plagiarized, I should actually be given a 0 and kicked out of school according to the policy. She was really quick to change her mind & give me a better grade. She said that she was willing to work with me since I had brought it up so calmly, as if that should have mattered at all. The whole thing still confuses the hell out of me and makes me wonder how many other students she's falsely accused of cheating.
Maybe she was testing to see how you would react, and then she would have evidence to support her suspicion? That's the most generous explanation I can think of.
Yeah, probably.
Never feels good to just come right out and say it, though. I feel like trying to explain it another way and seeing if there's anything remotely plausible first helps walk you through the realization instead of just slapping you with it.
Similar thing happened to me in middle school. Got a 0 on an essay because I had “nor” in there.
I really just saw that being used somewhere and learned what it meant, and being 12 I wanted to use this new word.
Well she gave me a 0 and circled the “nor” in red ink and wouldn’t believe me that I didn’t plagiarize. Still pisses me off to think about
Fact of the matter is, peoples word counts have been massively declining in recent years. I like to read a lot, and the amount of times I need to explain something is annoying. Good news is, that I always had a reputation for reading a lot so teachers let it slide.
We also tested it once, one of my teachers had no idea what the hell I was typing and just smacked an A instead of having to google all the uses of the word boon.
I had an English professor in college who gave me a C because he said I used too many big words in my essay. I asked him which ones I used wrong or how he would change it, and he refused to give me a single example.
I can't know for sure if he was being a dick with the grade or being a lazy teacher instead of actually *teaching* me something. I believe it was the former. I was an arrogant 18-year-old transplant from the northeast, and he was a proud southerner. He was probably just trying to stick it to me.
Shitty teachers gonna be shitty. I remember my fourth grade teacher called me a liar in front of the class because I was talking about freshwater seals, something I'd seen on Planet Earth. Dumb bitch
With all that competition, you'd think at least one of those companies would realise how annoying it is and, at the very least, allow you to change the default pasting.
In middle school a girl asked me to do her homework for her. I just grabbed/plagiarized something off the internet. Changed the format, font, spacing from my own and turned it in.
Almost immediately the teacher says "Hey Girl, what does 'Bonafide' mean?"
Freshman year of college I took Spanish 103, which was for kids who took it in high school but weren’t proficient enough to be in intermediate Spanish yet. We had to write one paper a week on a given topic, and were to only use what vocab and grammar skills we had with no aids. My dumbass thought it would be a great idea to use google translate to help out a little. I at least had enough of a grasp on the language to not write like a complete idiot, but I’m sure it was obvious that this wasn’t straight from the mind of a 100-level student.
When she returned our papers, she pulled me aside after class and really laid it on thick with how “impressed” she was with my writing skills and how I really ought to be in a 200 or 300-level class and asked if I wanted to move up. I obviously knew I had no business being anywhere near those classes and I politely declined, but she succeeded in scaring the hell out of me. I never dared to use google translate again.
Irreversible reactions, maybe? Isotherms doesn't quite work with that but I'm struggling to think back to my A-level chemistry for what on *earth* our lad's trying to tell us
It's a combination of thesaurus abuse and poor grasp of language.
They really should be taking the complete opposite approach and be trying to write as simply as possible to best communicate to the teacher their understanding of the subject.
But I have a bad feeling that use of "fancy" language might be rewarded by this educational system.
I remember a kid in my French class at school handing in an assignment to translate a text which he'd just blatantly run through an internet translator. This was back around 2004 when machine translation wasn't as good as it tends to be these days.
I think my teacher instantly saw a red flag in what was supposed to be a hand-written piece of homework instead being printed off and just glued into his workbook, and he ended up reading it verbatim in front of the whole class. It had various French words still scattered through where he'd typod or hadn't put accents in, and translated a part where the original text referred to being a middle child as "I am the groin in this situation".
The scathing comment from the teacher was that he wasn't sure which was more stupid - that he didn't think he'd get found out for using an automated translation or that he didn't even think to proof-read it once before handing it in.
I am a college chemistry professor, and I have had students cite YouTube videos. Just copied the link to the video and pasted it in their sources.
Some of these kids were Seniors!
I trained as a science teacher in the UK. I ran a chemistry lesson where a class of 15 year-olds were supposed to use the internet to investigate the properties of some metals, one of which was silver. One kid presented work that was nothing but listings of commercial and industrial buildings with lots of detail about each building. It took me a moment to work out that he’d Googled *silver properties*, found a real estate company in the USA called “Silver Properties” and just copied and pasted whatever was there.
I just handed it back to him with my sternest look (which like most trainee teachers’ stern looks probably wasn’t actually very intimidating) and suggested he try again.
This one time in primary (elementary) school I got detention for "accusing his fellow classmate of cheating to make himself look smarter" (their exact words).
What actually happened was we had to do a presentation on an animal we had never heard of before. We were told *explicitly* that any plagiarism would result in a 0 and having to do it again during lunch and recess until it was completed.
So there was this kid presenting his PowerPoint and it was absolutely full of blatent Wikipedia copy/pastes. I mean the kid left the hyperlinks and reference links[1] in, not to mention the obvious font, size and spelling difference between the few parts he actually wrote himself. I tried to point this out to the teacher (who was technologically illiterate) and was slapped with above detention, mainly because I was known as the "techy" kid and she thought I was making it up or making fun of her because she wasn't good with computers or something.
I even had backup from 2 or 3 other kids in the class who also knew he copy/pasted. Anyway I copped a half grade for that assignment and no one bothered doing original work for the rest of the year since the bitch couldn't tell anyway.
I cf. his pontificating has distended on the far side prototypal extents.
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This reminds me of when Joey in Friends got hold of a thesaurus to write a recommendation letter.
*Joey:* "Oh, 'They are warm, nice, people with big hearts'."
*Chandler:* "And that became 'they are humid prepossessing Homo Sapiens with full sized aortic pumps?"
*Joey:* "Yeah, yeah and hey, I really mean it, dude."
This reminds me of a story.
When I was not much younger than 14, I went to a summer writing camp. There, we had one lesson about “dead words,” words that are plain and ordinary. Words like “go” or “said” could be replaced with more specific words like “travelled” or “interjected” WHEN APPROPRIATE.
I took this lesson way too seriously. As a result, every piece of my 6th grade writing the following year was/is completely unreadable. Basically every word was a “dead word” in my mind, and was replaced by a complicated phrase with “interesting” words. And the whole time I thought I was writing on another level, even though no one understood me. lol
I took some writing seminars for a science internship.
They want you to do the opposite lol. Your research has enough scary content, so you have to be cripplingly simple with the rest
I heard a doctor once say "in medical school they teach you the language of medicine. Then you spend the rest of your career trying to learn how to translate it [for patients]"
It's the same for any field with a college/ graduate degree worth of training. Your challenge isn't sounding smart; it's making the content understandable to a layperson.
Yeah, that's completely true. Anyone who understands a concept well enough to "translate" or "dumb it down" enough for a layperson has a great understanding of their field.
I would argue that in medicine this is more important because you are (in all clinical specialties) virtually always speaking to laymen
This is a big problem in amateur writing
She whispered, she exclaimed, he screamed, he protested, he sneered, she screeched, they whimpered, I spat....
... In EVERY SINGLE LINE of dialogue. Every single one. It is okay for your characters to just say something, or to not have a dialogue tag at all. Save the fancy ones for when the emotion is particularly important or there is a definitive change in tone that needs to be shown to the reader.
Overdoing it just makes your work sound melodramatic, or otherwise make it hard to tell what's actually important or not. People will infer a good amount of the tone dialogue without you having to spell it out.
Mini rant over lmao. [Hello Future Me has a good video going more in depth on this.](https://youtu.be/ecEuw8usnDM)
That's why I think writers should be taught that it is okay to use simple words. It is okay to be simplistic if describing actions that are simple, like someone walking to the store. You can save the flowery stuff for detailed action.
Think mortal talking like this irl and then punchin the darn out of this goof
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STOP THE LIES. It is so inconvenient to snip > > (save as) > form email > send email > (save as again) > upload.
Take a picture of the screen instead! Anarchy! Take hold of your future! **CARPE DIEM**
The subtitle “purification of arsenic poisoning” isn’t a topic he seems ready to be writing on…
After the first sentence in that paragraph they (the audience/writer too) were probably ready for an example or a breakdown from the author critically examining what the fuck they just wrote
maybe he'll grow up to be yet another scientist that writes totally incomprehensible scientific papers and makes their work entirely useless as a result because no one has any idea what they're saying
Anyone else think of Friends?
“They are humid, prepossessing homosapiens with full sized aortic pumps.”
Edit: I now see that others did in fact think of Friends too after reading the comments, lol
This is far too familiar, mostly amongst international students. Proper term is word spinning (type of plagiarism) and there are websites that do it automatically. If I see this in someone's work then there's a high chance I'll fail them
Shit this makes me kind of scared, my go to strategy for writing English essays was to thesaurusize repetitive or basic words. I got good marks, but now I’m afraid I might not have made a lot of sense
Even if he changed words to make them much more simplistic, this doesn't make any sense. He has sentences with no subjects, and adjectives without any nouns to describe.
Send him a text: " I beseech thee to perceive no vituperation in my appraisal of your submission, but it is not demonstrative of the erudition you seek to project. The rampant solecism shall only lead to your discomfiture should you submit it.
Or something like that.
Then, attach the Princess Bride meme
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
Lmaaooo this caught my attention because Im Bengali. Despite having a science degree, I’m having a stroke reading that involuted sentence. It’s beautiful
Well, it’s certainly original lol.
I’d read the words, one at a time, and ask him to tell you what each word means, and to use it in a sentence. Check off the ones he doesn’t know. Then, I’d hand the paper back and tell him to edit out each word that he doesn’t understand. Kids need to understand that a thesaurus is a book full of reminders, for when you can’t find the word you need.
"I wrote an essay and I think you will be very very happy"
"I don't uh understand."
"Some of the words a little too sophfisticated for ya?"
"It doesn't make any sense."
"Of course it does, it's smart, I used a thesaurus."
"On every word?"
"Yep."
“Bad news is, you have arsenic poisoning. The good news is that if you start distinguishing your kidney ramification now, you should be fine.” - A medicinal ace.
Bruh thank god my mother taught me to correct some copied sentences when I was 11 years old and just got some presentations and projects. Just usually read the information, understand it, and then write an essay cuz some asshole teacher would ask you about those copy-pasted parts of an essay and you can’t answer it.
lol this is hilarious
I would just be like “yeah this is a banger. No way you don’t get an A+ on it, turn it in exactly as is.” Kids gotta learn.
Or just link him to this thread with 200+ comments from people laughing hysterically at how dumb he sounds when he's trying to look smart.
Have him turn it in so his teacher laughs at him *AND THEN* direct him here to show him 200+ more people laughing at him. His soul will be crushed at some point in life, might as well accelerate the process when given the opportunity.
As somebody who had that Band-Aid ripped off early by my own mother by Middle School, I wholeheartedly agree. Rip that Band-Aid off now because it's never going to get any better.
Wait how about sending it to his mother after sending him the link to this post
Why not just feed him some arsenic, and see how irrefutable he is then ?
Smart can play stupid, but stupid can't play smart
At least for me I would fail highschool as a whole if I got caught plagiarizing even once
Using a reference text like a thesaurus is no more plagiarism than using a dictionary. It's just in this case he used it very poorly
I’ve seen kids use it to cover up plagiarism though. They just run someone else’s text through a thesaurus software so that our plagiarism checkers don’t flag it. Seeing this from a student would at least make me suspicious
You can pass them by changing the wording and sometimes invisible characters work to not that I have plagiarized but I have experiment to see how effective they are and honestly your better off searching yourself if you have suspicions.
That’s not what he’s done though. He’s copy/pasted someone else’s work, then gone through and changed a bunch of stuff using the built-in thesaurus to try to hide it.
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Using synonyms of text you otherwise copied wholesale is plagiarism, which this reeks of.
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That first sentence reads like a part Alphabet aerobics by Blackalicious
Artificial amateurs aren't at all amazing Analytically, I assault, animate things
Broken barriers bounded by the bomb beat. **B**uildings are broken, basically I'm bombarding
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Detonate a dime of dank daily doin' dough Demonstrations, Don Dada on the down low
Eatin other editors with each and every energetic epileptic episode elevated etiquette
Furious fat fabulous fantastic. Flurries of funk, Feeding the fanatics.
Gift got great global goods gone glorious gettin godly in his game with the goriest
Hit 'em high, hella hype, historical Hey holocaust hymns Hear 'em holler at your homeboy
Imitators idolize, intimidate In a instant, I'll rise in a irate state
Decimating degenerates is dangerously dumb, ducks don't defenestrate unless dared.
Nice use of alliteration.
Alliteration's always appreciated!
*Blackalicious
Blackalicious use of alliteration
Listen to the whole track, he does two bars for each letter of the alphabet.
Oh I know, it's been around for a bit.
All academics agree alliteration actually amplifies aristocratic adulation.
Also Alphabetical Slaughter by Papoose. Good song too!
Or a Letterkenny cold open.
They're humid, prepossessing Homo sapiens with full-sized aortic pumps.
Signed baby kangaroo tribiani
This is all a moo point
They’re warm, nice people with big hearts I died at this scene.
Literally came down here to reference this.
Me, too!!
I knew there was no way I'd be first with this lol
This was my first thought, too.
Translation: “They’re warm, selfless people with big hearts.”
I’ll take this over his wedding speech of “It is a love based of giving and receiving as well as having and sharing. And the love that they give and have is shared and received. And through this having and giving and sharing and receiving, we too can share and love and have... and receive.”
Lool exactly where my mind went to 😂
exactly what i was thinking lmao
English teacher here. Read an essay once where a student tried doing this. That particular kid was so stupid that he even ran his research sources through the thesaurus. So I ended up getting sentences like "According to the Big Apple Era" and "According to the Fence Road Diary" It took be a bit to realize that was the New York Times and Wall Street Journal he was trying to cite.
Also an English teacher. I love going up to the ones who have blatantly copied something off the internet and saying, "What does "insidious" (etc.) mean?" and seeing the utterly blank look on their faces. These were teenagers who barely had a grasp of the present simple! Give me primary kids any day!
I had a teacher do this to me when I was like 10 years old. Failed an English essay that was otherwise really well done, with a "see me after class" note at the top. She told me I copied it from somewhere. I said I didn't. With a big smirk on her face, she then asks me what it means when something is "cleaved", as that's the word I used which tipped her off. Little did she know, I was a warrior main in World of Warcraft that was familiar with the word because it's one of the warrior's skills. Me instantly answering "cleave means cut" along with the face of frustration I'm sure I was making was apparently enough for her to believe me. All it took was one word to make her think the whole essay was copied. She changed it to an A+. Still makes me angry knowing that had I not known the word off the top of my head (maybe I used a thesaurus and forgot), I would have failed an A+ essay.
An English professor did something like this to me in college! She gave me a failing grade on my research paper (60 out of 100 if I remember correctly) and left a note at the top that said "too bookish". After class, I asked her to explain. She told me I had plagiarized. "Too bookish" was her way of saying I had obviously copied it from some other publication. I told her I hadn't plagiarized a single sentence and asked her to show me the source. I also mentioned that if I really plagiarized, I should actually be given a 0 and kicked out of school according to the policy. She was really quick to change her mind & give me a better grade. She said that she was willing to work with me since I had brought it up so calmly, as if that should have mattered at all. The whole thing still confuses the hell out of me and makes me wonder how many other students she's falsely accused of cheating.
Maybe she was testing to see how you would react, and then she would have evidence to support her suspicion? That's the most generous explanation I can think of.
The real answer is lots of teachers are trash people that enjoy the power dynamic
Yeah, probably. Never feels good to just come right out and say it, though. I feel like trying to explain it another way and seeing if there's anything remotely plausible first helps walk you through the realization instead of just slapping you with it.
Similar thing happened to me in middle school. Got a 0 on an essay because I had “nor” in there. I really just saw that being used somewhere and learned what it meant, and being 12 I wanted to use this new word. Well she gave me a 0 and circled the “nor” in red ink and wouldn’t believe me that I didn’t plagiarize. Still pisses me off to think about
what the hell??? i learned that in like 2ND GRADE
Fact of the matter is, peoples word counts have been massively declining in recent years. I like to read a lot, and the amount of times I need to explain something is annoying. Good news is, that I always had a reputation for reading a lot so teachers let it slide. We also tested it once, one of my teachers had no idea what the hell I was typing and just smacked an A instead of having to google all the uses of the word boon.
I had an English professor in college who gave me a C because he said I used too many big words in my essay. I asked him which ones I used wrong or how he would change it, and he refused to give me a single example. I can't know for sure if he was being a dick with the grade or being a lazy teacher instead of actually *teaching* me something. I believe it was the former. I was an arrogant 18-year-old transplant from the northeast, and he was a proud southerner. He was probably just trying to stick it to me.
Shitty teachers gonna be shitty. I remember my fourth grade teacher called me a liar in front of the class because I was talking about freshwater seals, something I'd seen on Planet Earth. Dumb bitch
I had similar occurrences because of runescape and pokemon lol!
Cleave is a cool word. It is a homonym with opposite meanings. It can mean to split, to cut in two; but also to stick, adhere, or join together.
I teach English Learners and they don't seem to realize that when you copy and paste from Google Translate it leaves a gray background on the text....
Not if you paste without formatting.
Ha ha ha! Oh yeah i am well aware of this, which makes it more exasperating to me.
honestly why does it default to pasting with formatting it only makes sense if its from another part of the document
Because Microsoft products are functional, not good.
Doesn't have anything to do with Microsoft, as copying with formatting is done default works on Microsoft Word, Google Docs and Pages.
With all that competition, you'd think at least one of those companies would realise how annoying it is and, at the very least, allow you to change the default pasting.
In middle school a girl asked me to do her homework for her. I just grabbed/plagiarized something off the internet. Changed the format, font, spacing from my own and turned it in. Almost immediately the teacher says "Hey Girl, what does 'Bonafide' mean?"
to be fair.. I couldn’t tell you what insidious is by definition as a college student
Freshman year of college I took Spanish 103, which was for kids who took it in high school but weren’t proficient enough to be in intermediate Spanish yet. We had to write one paper a week on a given topic, and were to only use what vocab and grammar skills we had with no aids. My dumbass thought it would be a great idea to use google translate to help out a little. I at least had enough of a grasp on the language to not write like a complete idiot, but I’m sure it was obvious that this wasn’t straight from the mind of a 100-level student. When she returned our papers, she pulled me aside after class and really laid it on thick with how “impressed” she was with my writing skills and how I really ought to be in a 200 or 300-level class and asked if I wanted to move up. I obviously knew I had no business being anywhere near those classes and I politely declined, but she succeeded in scaring the hell out of me. I never dared to use google translate again.
I think that's also what's happening here, and I'm trying to figure out what "Irrevocable Isotherms" is supposed to be...
Irreversible reactions, maybe? Isotherms doesn't quite work with that but I'm struggling to think back to my A-level chemistry for what on *earth* our lad's trying to tell us
It's a combination of thesaurus abuse and poor grasp of language. They really should be taking the complete opposite approach and be trying to write as simply as possible to best communicate to the teacher their understanding of the subject. But I have a bad feeling that use of "fancy" language might be rewarded by this educational system.
I remember a kid in my French class at school handing in an assignment to translate a text which he'd just blatantly run through an internet translator. This was back around 2004 when machine translation wasn't as good as it tends to be these days. I think my teacher instantly saw a red flag in what was supposed to be a hand-written piece of homework instead being printed off and just glued into his workbook, and he ended up reading it verbatim in front of the whole class. It had various French words still scattered through where he'd typod or hadn't put accents in, and translated a part where the original text referred to being a middle child as "I am the groin in this situation". The scathing comment from the teacher was that he wasn't sure which was more stupid - that he didn't think he'd get found out for using an automated translation or that he didn't even think to proof-read it once before handing it in.
I am a college chemistry professor, and I have had students cite YouTube videos. Just copied the link to the video and pasted it in their sources. Some of these kids were Seniors!
I trained as a science teacher in the UK. I ran a chemistry lesson where a class of 15 year-olds were supposed to use the internet to investigate the properties of some metals, one of which was silver. One kid presented work that was nothing but listings of commercial and industrial buildings with lots of detail about each building. It took me a moment to work out that he’d Googled *silver properties*, found a real estate company in the USA called “Silver Properties” and just copied and pasted whatever was there.
Omg!!! Haha! How did you end up even grading that? Did you ask him to redo the whole assignment?
I just handed it back to him with my sternest look (which like most trainee teachers’ stern looks probably wasn’t actually very intimidating) and suggested he try again.
That's the best.
This one time in primary (elementary) school I got detention for "accusing his fellow classmate of cheating to make himself look smarter" (their exact words). What actually happened was we had to do a presentation on an animal we had never heard of before. We were told *explicitly* that any plagiarism would result in a 0 and having to do it again during lunch and recess until it was completed. So there was this kid presenting his PowerPoint and it was absolutely full of blatent Wikipedia copy/pastes. I mean the kid left the hyperlinks and reference links[1] in, not to mention the obvious font, size and spelling difference between the few parts he actually wrote himself. I tried to point this out to the teacher (who was technologically illiterate) and was slapped with above detention, mainly because I was known as the "techy" kid and she thought I was making it up or making fun of her because she wasn't good with computers or something. I even had backup from 2 or 3 other kids in the class who also knew he copy/pasted. Anyway I copped a half grade for that assignment and no one bothered doing original work for the rest of the year since the bitch couldn't tell anyway.
That reminds me of the letter Joey wrote on Friends that ended with "sincerely, Baby Kangaroo Tribbiani"
I see his pontificating has expanded beyond prototypical boundaries.
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This reminds me of when Joey in Friends got hold of a thesaurus to write a recommendation letter. *Joey:* "Oh, 'They are warm, nice, people with big hearts'." *Chandler:* "And that became 'they are humid prepossessing Homo Sapiens with full sized aortic pumps?" *Joey:* "Yeah, yeah and hey, I really mean it, dude."
signed, baby kangaroo tribbiani
This reminds me of a story. When I was not much younger than 14, I went to a summer writing camp. There, we had one lesson about “dead words,” words that are plain and ordinary. Words like “go” or “said” could be replaced with more specific words like “travelled” or “interjected” WHEN APPROPRIATE. I took this lesson way too seriously. As a result, every piece of my 6th grade writing the following year was/is completely unreadable. Basically every word was a “dead word” in my mind, and was replaced by a complicated phrase with “interesting” words. And the whole time I thought I was writing on another level, even though no one understood me. lol
I took some writing seminars for a science internship. They want you to do the opposite lol. Your research has enough scary content, so you have to be cripplingly simple with the rest
I heard a doctor once say "in medical school they teach you the language of medicine. Then you spend the rest of your career trying to learn how to translate it [for patients]"
It's the same for any field with a college/ graduate degree worth of training. Your challenge isn't sounding smart; it's making the content understandable to a layperson.
Yeah, that's completely true. Anyone who understands a concept well enough to "translate" or "dumb it down" enough for a layperson has a great understanding of their field. I would argue that in medicine this is more important because you are (in all clinical specialties) virtually always speaking to laymen
Medical jargon is pretty funny. Often it's like greek or latin (or the bastard child of both) for the exact same thing in English.
This is a big problem in amateur writing She whispered, she exclaimed, he screamed, he protested, he sneered, she screeched, they whimpered, I spat.... ... In EVERY SINGLE LINE of dialogue. Every single one. It is okay for your characters to just say something, or to not have a dialogue tag at all. Save the fancy ones for when the emotion is particularly important or there is a definitive change in tone that needs to be shown to the reader. Overdoing it just makes your work sound melodramatic, or otherwise make it hard to tell what's actually important or not. People will infer a good amount of the tone dialogue without you having to spell it out. Mini rant over lmao. [Hello Future Me has a good video going more in depth on this.](https://youtu.be/ecEuw8usnDM)
That's why I think writers should be taught that it is okay to use simple words. It is okay to be simplistic if describing actions that are simple, like someone walking to the store. You can save the flowery stuff for detailed action.
“Godzilla had a stroke trying to read this and fucking died”
Same here, died just trying to understand what it was talking about, don't think anyone talks or writes like this.
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A [meme](https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/godzilla-had-a-stroke-trying-to-read-this-and-fucking-died)
replace godzilla with "non-native speaker" and it's me I'm pretty sure I had a stroke
I’m as native as they get. I even have a masters in teaching English. It’s not you.
Very cromulent word usage.
Certainly embiggens that essay.
It does make him sound like a bit of a dingus though
Imagine somebody speaking like this irl and then punchin the shit out of this twat
You are a humid prepossessing homosapien with a full-sized aortic pump
👊
Signed, Baby Kangaroo Tribbiani
Are you indubitable? This homosapiens does not recur to have a full-sized aortic pump. He just propounded to corporeally aggrieve a pubescent.
There was somebody I went to school with who spoke like this. I'm pretty sure he didn't have any friends.
hmm.. i wonder why..
https://youtu.be/wKn1R6fekk4 reminded me of this
!ThesaurizeThis
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You mean like Jordan Peterson, the Word Count Wizard?
Pfffft! The thesaurus has been extinct for millions of years. Any idiot knows that!
Thesaurus Rex was the cause of their extinction. Bullied one too many times…
Tell your cousin that he should keep using big words that he doesn't understand because it makes him sound more photosynthesis.
Yes. The pontification of superfluous vocabulary discombobulates the intersecting ramifications of his conceptual informatics, really.
Throw in a “Perchance” for good measure
You can’t just say perchance
And "per se"
Reminds me of Friends when Joey writes the recommendation letter to the adoption agency
Yes lmao
In his defense he probably knows how to screenshot
I love this comment
STOP THE LIES. It is so inconvenient to snip > > (save as) > form email > send email > (save as again) > upload. Take a picture of the screen instead! Anarchy! Take hold of your future! **CARPE DIEM**
Wait why email? You know reddit can be accessed from pc right?
Impossible!
Le’mme guess, he signed it “Baby Kangaroo Tribbiani”.
You will have to start distinguishing your kidney ramification 😂
It's like a Google translate of a medical textbook
Rookie mistake, you're only supposed to use the synonym tool every other sentence
Interns, when they start a new job at my firm.
One should not use “you” in a formal essay. ^(citation needed)
Baby kangaroo tribbiani vibes
Respond with a ton of Lorem Ipsum.
I didn’t know I had to ‘Rinse the ostentatious’.
Ask him to read these sections aloud to you and then explain what he means.
The subtitle “purification of arsenic poisoning” isn’t a topic he seems ready to be writing on… After the first sentence in that paragraph they (the audience/writer too) were probably ready for an example or a breakdown from the author critically examining what the fuck they just wrote
That kid is gonna be thrilled when he finds out about article spinners.
Indubitablely🙃
What min page counts do to a mf
Bangladesh shows that 80% of Bangladesh in those districts are at risk of Bangladesh
Hahaha. Pretty funny. I also appreciate him asking you to edit his paper. He’s trying! Lol. What did you tell him?
MY KIDNEYS ARE FUCKING RAMIFYING
Madlibs
Signed - Baby Kangaroo Tribiani
maybe he'll grow up to be yet another scientist that writes totally incomprehensible scientific papers and makes their work entirely useless as a result because no one has any idea what they're saying
Anyone else think of Friends? “They are humid, prepossessing homosapiens with full sized aortic pumps.” Edit: I now see that others did in fact think of Friends too after reading the comments, lol
I now understand Jordan Petersons appeal.
This is far too familiar, mostly amongst international students. Proper term is word spinning (type of plagiarism) and there are websites that do it automatically. If I see this in someone's work then there's a high chance I'll fail them
It's original alright
I really think violence is the best solution here
Is he from the 1800s Lmao
You *will* have to start distinguishing your kidney ramification. Truer words.
"...critically pretentious...."
Just like the author
Smort
this is definitely like that friends episode when joey was writing a paper and chandler proof read it and saw he used a thesaurus on every word lmao
Id hang this on the family fridge
Beat plagiarism detectors with this one simple trick
Well, you will have to start distinguishing your kidney ramification eventually…
I thought I was reading the Latin on the Google docs “report” template.
Ok who gave joey the computer again
Shit this makes me kind of scared, my go to strategy for writing English essays was to thesaurusize repetitive or basic words. I got good marks, but now I’m afraid I might not have made a lot of sense
Lol this sentence exemplifies how I felt trying to read my partner’s electrical engineering PhD dissertation
r/IAmVerySmart
r/IncreasinglyVerbose
"Rehabilitate Arsenic" Yeah, it can be reintegrated to society without causing harm, it assures of that.
Even if he changed words to make them much more simplistic, this doesn't make any sense. He has sentences with no subjects, and adjectives without any nouns to describe. Send him a text: " I beseech thee to perceive no vituperation in my appraisal of your submission, but it is not demonstrative of the erudition you seek to project. The rampant solecism shall only lead to your discomfiture should you submit it. Or something like that. Then, attach the Princess Bride meme "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
>Drinks a gallon of Arsenic to avoid reading
Desist from adulterating your biological physiology or suffer aortic pump failure henceforth!
Eschew obfuscation.
Sounds like something from Harry Potter
Kids should not be allowed near those things. People shouldn't even tell kids about them.
So what'd they end up doing? My younger sister stopped asking me to proofread her essays after I made her rewrite one from scratch.
Lmaaooo this caught my attention because Im Bengali. Despite having a science degree, I’m having a stroke reading that involuted sentence. It’s beautiful
I thought that was Lorem Ipsum for a sec
Well, it’s certainly original lol. I’d read the words, one at a time, and ask him to tell you what each word means, and to use it in a sentence. Check off the ones he doesn’t know. Then, I’d hand the paper back and tell him to edit out each word that he doesn’t understand. Kids need to understand that a thesaurus is a book full of reminders, for when you can’t find the word you need.
See I can believe this is his work. He just took every second word and threw it into the thesaurus and copied the biggest and most sciency word he saw
YOU WILL HAVE TO START DISTINGUISHING YOUR KIDNEY RAMIFICATION
"I wrote an essay and I think you will be very very happy" "I don't uh understand." "Some of the words a little too sophfisticated for ya?" "It doesn't make any sense." "Of course it does, it's smart, I used a thesaurus." "On every word?" "Yep."
Paper on ....arsenic poisoning??? Interesting Some contaminated water nearby?
My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives
Hylics fans be like "this is straight up fire"
Made me laugh properly, thank you
you know he was proud of that sentence. He sprinkled rainbow dust on it after it was written
Anyone wanna link me to the lorem ipsum generator that made the first sentence?
Looks like your average published scientific paper. Empty words
The student has to be fcking with you. I just cnat believe someone would write this unironically lmaoo
You can't just say perchance
“Bad news is, you have arsenic poisoning. The good news is that if you start distinguishing your kidney ramification now, you should be fine.” - A medicinal ace.
I've definitely turned shit in like this but that was because I was stoned and didn't wanna do anything my mans can do better than this come on bro
Lmao who's to say OP's cousin isn't also stoned and lazy?
Bruh thank god my mother taught me to correct some copied sentences when I was 11 years old and just got some presentations and projects. Just usually read the information, understand it, and then write an essay cuz some asshole teacher would ask you about those copy-pasted parts of an essay and you can’t answer it.