I read this headline about the plagiarism charge surrounding the Harry Potter series and I was flummoxed, perplexed, chagrined, and just annoyed. Plagiarism is a serious offense, one which will truly make me blindingly angry when I have found it in my students' papers. In this case, the plagiarism charges seems to be unfounded, which makes me glad. What has aggravated me here is the use of slang and very poor grammar in a headline which potentially many people will read. (I clicked the link, did I not?)
Now, did the author choose these words? Did some representative from the publishing company choose them? Either way, I feel we have sunk to a new low. I saw the movie Idiocracy a month or so ago and maybe there is more reality in that silly comedy than fantasy.
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