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The sophisticates will get it

Arriving at the big time, I was quoted by Geoffrey Pullum at Language Log in an article drawing out the distinction between plagiarism and allusion:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004598.html#more

It is, of course, a subject on which a great deal can be said, and those who read Mr. Pullum’s article might find some interest in a related article that I wrote for the Poynter Institute. “Allude at your own risk” can be found at this location:

http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=83501

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John McIntyre, mild-mannered editor for a great metropolitan newspaper, has fussed over writers’ work, to sporadic expressions of gratitude, for thirty years. He is The Sun’s night content production manager and former head of its copy desk. He also teaches editing at Loyola University Maryland. A former president of the American Copy Editors Society, a native of Kentucky, a graduate of Michigan State and Syracuse, and a moderate prescriptivist, he writes about language, journalism, and arbitrarily chosen topics. If you are inspired by a spirit of contradiction, comment on the posts or write to him at john.mcintyre@baltsun.com.

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