Just imagine what the people would do for the large-print cover of that one!

http://www.blogthings.com/whatjapanesesmileyareyouquiz/

I’m face with glasses (^O_O^). Very clever. Love the glittery hoo-ha and blushing.

Unless they are there with your full knowledge and consent (and you are getting a percentage of the income) I think you and your sysop need to have a heart-to-heart talk about site security.

They all go to http://thepodcastnetwork.com and various URLS on that site.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shift_JIS_art

(-: Enough babbling; here’s the article URL.
http://www2.gol.com/users/kilburn/BU200008.htm

But I have to warn you about using this stuff — I googled the bowing one? Urban dictionary has a list of absolutely filthy ones; I think the bowing bit can also be interpreted as a, um, hoo-ha. So, I guess this *(_o_)* would be a glittery hoo-ha.

I’m still blushing.(*’o'*).

- that there are still authors out there who believe that they can permanently get away with lifting other author’s material, be it young Indian girls or mature multi-published writers

- that publishing houses are not ultra-careful, warning their authors about this or making them sign a statement so that they are aware of what constitutes plagiarism

- that some people get so emotionally involved that instead of just saying ‘plagiarism is wrong and should be punished’, they spend precious hours of their lives battling on a high emotional level at internet blogs with people they never met

So I loved Gennita’s way of summing it up. I always admire creativity like that.

LOLcats are cute kitty pictures with surprising captions.

LEET is computer shorthand. If you’ve ever used MIL or BTW, then you’ve done it. There are all sorts of new permutations (and I think the key part is MUTATIONS), and you should see how elegant Japanese LEET is. (_0_) is a person bowing on the floor, begging abject pardons from you. See the kimono sleeves? OK, I stop now. Bai.

But now that the dust is settling (or thunder is quieting), and the extent of the material lifted growing daily, I have to wonder, what was CE thinking? Did she not think/know it was wrong to copy other people’s words? I wonder why not? She must not have felt the pinch of the shoes since she did use exact words and passages with no thesaurus at hand, when those words and passages could have been easily rephrased as her own.

Taking just the ferret passages it is mind boggling that she believed it was necessary to throw a random animal article in after the sex. Was she writing to some word count? Oh look, here is a great article on ferrets (they don’t live where the book is set, but that is okay, no one will know and look at all these free words)! Oh well, not really trying to stir up any of the Greek chorus, but I find it perplexing.

I am still rolling on the floor cracking up about Gennita’s post!

For someone who writes such killingly intense books, Gennita sure writes a funny blog. Thanks for reminding me. I wonder why I stopped going there. And Meljean, I remember her when she was “just a blogger,” before the book contract. She, too, is going in my Kinja.

Thanks, Jenny!