IS THE "TEA PARTY" REALLY A POPULIST MOVEMENT?

@High Seas,

I think that the title of a written or recorded work should be either italicized or placed in quotes, depending on the type. This is not a written or recorded work, it's simply a name given to an event. It certainly does not by any stretch of the imagination constitute plagiarism.

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@Setanta,

Indeed...different coloured placebos work better for different things also, apparently.

(I'm just going on reports of placebo research from a friend, mind you...but she's usually damned accurate...and she's a chronic pain specialist.)

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@Setanta,

Set,

It isn't just politically aware people who know about the Stewart/Colbert rally: it has been extensively covered on NPR (oops! I forgot that some people boycott that left wing bastion of well-written, useful news) and other media outlets.

Anyone who doesn't know about the Sanity Rally is probably at home, stuffing a fat face with bonbons, hoping for an answer to a match.com ad to relieve boredom and loneliness.

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@Setanta,

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should be either italicized or placed in quotes, depending on the type.

So we disagree on editing style - because I think the name of an event should be quoted exactly as the other titles.

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@dlowan,

I suspect at this point Olga needs something stronger than tea.

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@plainoldme,

I checked on google for "sanity rally" because of this discussion....the name appears an extremely popular one for the thing.

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@plainoldme,

Nah...I think she's got Helen's measure and is just having fun laughing at her.

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Does anyone with enough education to know what plagiarism is and enough sophistication to take themselves to the nearest outlets for food, newspapers and aspirin think anything we post on this forum might be considered plagiarism?

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@High Seas,

Your idiosyncratic and quixotic ideas about what you delusionally refer to as editing are no good basis for leveling a charge of plagiarism against Miss Olga.

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@Setanta,

I was exceedingly clear that no such charge is being leveled against Olga - please refer to several post(s) on that very point.

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@dlowan,

There is a brand of cough syrup in Canadia--Buckley's--which is notoriously bad tasting, and apparently a lot of Canajuns swear by it. They proudly advertise on the basis of how bad it tastes--a typical television ad will have a montage of the faces people make after taking Buckley's . . .

http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/brandnewday/archives/buckeysad_dept.jpg

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@High Seas,

High Seas wrote:

I was exceedingly clear that no such charge is being leveled against Olga - please refer to several post(s) on that very point.

As i've now pointed out several times, you're delusional.

You wrote:

The issue isn't a knowledge problem - the issue is plagiarism, as I made it abundantly clear.

I know Olga to be a person of good faith and wouldn't suspect her of deliberately plagiarizing from The Guardian or from any other text - it's careless and misleading writing on her part, but since she chooses to take this observation personally there's really no more to be said about it - by me at any rate.

By the way, for someone with no more to say about it, you certainly have been prolix.

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@Setanta,

It is "editing style" - if you're going to quote me do it accurately. It varies among publications, and we happen to disagree on this specific point. Introducing "delusion" into this dialogue is pointless - unless it's humor caused by inadvertently read POM, who's obsessed with the idea I might be fat Smile

Edit: I'm in Sacramento and have to leave soon - so for the last time: I had no more to say to Olga, or she to me, on the topic.

I was addressing you, since you chose to follow up with half-digested commentary like claiming that this >

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careless and misleading writing on her part

> following after an explicit disclaimer, is somehow conflated with "plagiarism".

Read - can't be bothered to repeat my own posts. And have a good day.

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@Setanta,

May this explain the reputed efficacy of castor oil?

(Sorry thread originator, I know this discussion is way off topic, but since the thread appeared to have become dominated by ridiculous attacks, it didn't seem to matter too much right now.)

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@High Seas,

Apparently, you can't be bothered to read your own posts, either. I see you're using you're "i'm at the airport right now" dodge to get out of yet another hole you've dug for yourself. That one got old a long time ago.

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@Setanta,

I'm not at an airport - I'm in a hotel in Sacramento and have to get to a breakfast meeting. What conceivable difference does it make?

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Apparently you're not so pressed for time that you could resist another response.

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@Setanta,

No, I only have to be downstairs at the hotel dining room at 7. I'm absolutely mystified by this sudden interest in my personal circumstances. But I really feel this hijacking of the thread has gone on long enough - apologies to originator and goodbye.

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@High Seas,

If you knew it was mistake on msloga's part, why did you start making a big deal about it by bringing it up at all? We all make mistakes in our postings. What's more after bringing it up, you wonder why she took it personally.

In any event the rally is called

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"Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear"

source

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@High Seas,

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So we disagree on editing style - because I think the name of an event should be quoted exactly as the other titles.

So it should have been Italicized? Or it should have been underlined? Or it should have just been capitalized? Or it should have been in quotes? Or it doesn't need any of the above..

http://englishplus.com/grammar/00000112.htm

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Titles of longer written works are underlined or italicized.

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Titles of radio and television series as well as works of art are underlined or italicized.

http://englishplus.com/grammar/00000107.htm

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Use quotation marks to set off the title of a short written work or parts of a longer work.

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