Long live plagiarism ma' tal-Labour Youth
Ara Elix kemm hu saksi (on d rajt): any takers, girls?
Plagiarism seems to be a way of life for the up and coming mittilkless of the Forum Zghazagh Laburisti.
Over at the Daphne-is-a-transexual-called-Vladimir-and-an-evil-witch website which is fervently promoted by FZL secretary-general Alex Saliba, they have decided to put me on the psychiatrist’s couch with a tad of cod psychology and a post titled In Her Mind.
As soon as I read it, I knew it was plagiarised in toto from the Wikipedia Free Encyclopedia entry on narcissistic personality disorder, except that they didn’t use the words ‘narcissistic personality disorder’ because they probably thought it had something to do with those flowers little old ladies used to sell at the roadside. And personality – well, that’s a good thing, isn’t it? Mela halliha barra, Jes, hi.
Google this excerpt, and you’ll see what I mean:
This sense of self is the antithesis of the weakened and internalized self that hides in a generic state of shame
This is how her internalized self fends off devaluation, while she neutralizes devaluation by seeing others as unjust abusers.
The Wikipedia entry comes up first, and the Daphne-is-a-transsexual entry comes up second.
Pathetic. Typical Labour.
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One can note the plagiarism from a mile off – there are no caps, typos or exclamation marks, as well as the Americanised ‘z’ where we would otherwise use an Anglicised ‘s’.
As if they’d note the difference!
Let me share a curiosity about this. Would you associate “z” with American English and “s” with British English?
Fowler prefers “-ize” to “-ise”.
What do you think?
I don’t think anyone cares, and anyway, why change the subject?
I really pity these people in that they are beyond repair. I doubt if any psychiatrist in the universe could ever be of any help.
The problem is that they wouldn’t notice the defects in each other.
Well, actually this site’s quote comes up second on Google and the cesspit whirlpool site’s plagiarised waffle comes in in third place. I’d be quite surprised if they made any sense out of the pilfered definition. Which is probably why they didn’t try to paraphrase it.
Such big words from such little minds. So, so stooopid.
Jaqaw FZL secretary-general Alex Saliba qed jistudja ghal-avukat, bhal-Charlon? Jew forsi qed jiehu l-lezzjonijiet minghandhu?
They are such arses. The only thing they get right is getting it wrong,……………every bloody time.
Don’t add too many dots, or you’ll begin to “sound” like an elf.
Apologies Mandy, you’ve just taken the wind out of my sail….old habit. (and please don’t call me an elf, I’m very sensitive as to who I’m likened to.)
These people are a waste of space. Do not pay attention to trolls.
Good comeback. K.O.
Since when can’t a 20 year old celebrate graduation without having his photos ridiculed in a blog that is getting more distasteful by the minute?
[Daphne – Madam, this man is 22, the secretary-general of Forum Zghazagh Laburisti, and one of the people spreading slander about various members of my family via the internet. Oh, and he’s also the one writing repeatedly on Facebook that if ‘Gonzi’ doesn’t stop me, the evil witch, then ‘somebody should’. It is because of people like that and their appeals to some psycho to stop me that I have a police officer plastered to my house. So if I were you, I would put a zip on it, and if you know this young man give him a lecture which includes the words ‘heat’, ‘kitchen’ and ‘grow up’.]
and oh, feel free to edit this post, I’m merely the offspring of a poor couple that could not afford private education but chose to dump me at a Church-run school.
[Daphne – X’bicca ta’ chip ghandek, marelli. I went to a church school too, you know. I hate to say it, but your kind of attitude is one of the reasons why people like me no longer send their children to church schools to mix with people like you. Nothing worse than being in a class-room surrounded by whispering, nudging horrid little trolls who shut you out and diss you because you’re tal-pepe.]
My gosh, your school years were clearly horrible.
[Daphne – No, they weren’t. They were just deadly boring, dull and very cold. I was in a stupor of boredom most of the time. Incidentally, I’m only referring to secondary school here. Primary school was normal and fun – coed and in a modern (for the time) building, with a pleasant atmosphere and lots of activities.]
I was merely pointing out the fact that your generalisations are as rational as Michelle Muscat’s decision to put on the silver dress, not to mention, equally offensive.
As for Mr Saksi, yes, I don’t contend the fact that he needs to grow up. He should also get less attention especially for a blog that was anyway never read. The general public is more concerned with corrupt members of the judiciary, legislative or executive branches of the State than with someone who has clearly one-too-many-hours to waste
Perfectly put, Daphne. The sheer crap you put up with on a daily basis is saddening.
Keep reporting facts and let the jealous, ignorant and brain-washed folk get angrier.
Why are those at TYOM talking about the “devaluation” again? What now – is Alfred Sant suggesting that we devalue the Euro by 10%?
I can just picture Baldrick slowly mouthing that excerpt, then Captain Blackadder asking him “You mean she’s a bitch?”
Where I the Chancellor of the University of Malta, I would be greatly concerned, if not worried, that students like Alex of Zghazagh Laburisti and his ilk probably enjoyed nothing so much from their university training and experience as their graduation parties and pretty picture poses.
They certainly have not learned anything about intellectual integrity and consistency. They do not think twice before copying material from others, without acknowledging sources, and make it appear as if it were their own.
Not only that, but while they believe that jerking around the Colonna Mediterranea constitutes a censorship violation, they are grossly offended and outraged because the Prime Minister and the police do not muzzle a journalist like Daphne Caruana Galizia.They want the prime minister ‘to do something about her’.
How is that for consistency?
What we need is not another university as the leader of the moderates and progressives seems to think, but stricter intellectual “discipline” on who enters that institution and while they are there.
Well, now if you google that, the first entry is of Wikipedia, the second entry is this site and the third entry is Vladi’s site.
Kemm int tajba!