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When a student copies an essay online instead of writing it and then painstakingly changes every word to a synonym until the text no longer makes any sense...

call that the Ship of Thesaurus

trek-tracks

Any educator who doesn't feel this on a visceral level has never had to experience the psychic pain of reading the phrase "Unused York City."

maniculum

A lecturer at Middlesex University in 2014, Chris Sadler, coined the term "Rogetism" for these. Perhaps the best:

Source.

vigilantsycamore

I'm trying to hide my plagiarism but the clapping of my sinister buttocks keeps alerting the lecturer

#ik theyre also called ''tortured phrases'' but that might be more in the context of research papers LOL #with such great hits as ''bossom peril'' 😭#(breast cancer)

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natjennie

why is pride always in summer. what about the dykes that can't tolerate the heat huh. what about us. I mean them.

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lakevida

when my brother and i were kids we got in trouble for using the term "dadding" to mean making a promise you have no intent to follow thru on which is a testament to this country's disdain for creative types

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ontopofgravity

I asked one of my (male) friends to stop using the phrase “man up” and he has been using “fortify” for the past two weeks instead and it’s just a little thing but honestly it makes a difference

and tbh it’s also pretty funny when I start to deflate in the library and he leans over and goes “FORTIFY”

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newamsterdame

shoujonotes

#cats #art

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thecollectibles

Happy New Year by lei min

m-ushroomtale

Hua Long Dian Jing (画龙点腈) 618 A.D. - 907 A.D.: Bringing a painted dragon to life by dotting its eyes. An artist painted dragons so realistically that he had to leave the eyes off to prevent the dragons from flying away. This idiom came from a story in “Collection of Famous Paintings” by Zhang Yanyuan (张彦远). The moral of the story is the idiom shows the significance of the finishing touches when one is making a point in his or her writing or speaking. (…) for many centuries China was a world trade center. After World War II, China kept to itself and did not participate in much world trade. However, today the dragon’s eyes have been completed, and once again China has become a great trading nation, as its dragons fly throughout the world.

#art