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1. 6 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   Thank you

2. 6 days ago on Dick Tracy

   Another nice poem with a geat closing line. Thanks.

3. 8 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   LOL I now teach college freshmen but many years ago when I taught 9th grade, a girl handed in a report she had copied word for word from our text book. When I told her, “This isn’t your own work,” she protested, “it is too I copied it all by myself.” That’s when I realized the concept of plagiarism had not been taught in eighth grade. Lol. As far as she was concerned, she had honestly fulfilled the assignment because copying something was all that had ever been required of her before.

4. 8 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   One of my students denies she used AI to write a paper which was compromised of beautifully grammatical sentences that had little to do with the story she had been assigned. She admitted that she did not watch the TV episode I had them write about but claims she used “spark notes” instead. I however seriously doubt anyone has written a study guide to any obscure episode of a 60+ year old obscure TV series lol. If her paper was, as I suspect, written by AI, it was full of “talking points” associated with a few of the terms that could have had something to do the situation; however, she pretty much had everything backwards where the plot was concerned. The paper also seemed to talk in circles, repeating its main idea over and over again. So I wonder if AI generates a lot of jargon on a subject but really misses the point. Of course, in my student’s case it was probably because she didn’t give it very good prompts to begin with having not even bothered to watch the show she was assigned to write about.

5. 8 days ago on JumpStart

   Once removed? I know how that works with cousins; it means they are in different generations. In other words, your first cousin’s child is your first cousin once removed, whereas second cousins are the children of first cousins. But how does that work with in this case?

6. 8 days ago on JumpStart

   She’s married to his mother’s husband’s brother

7. 8 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   Thank you. Humanities should be left to humanity. That states it perfectly.

8. 9 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   I’m so sorry

9. 9 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   I’m pretty sure it will :)

10. 9 days ago on Breaking Cat News

    Elvis is not the ‘let it go’ type. He’s the ‘needs to see the nail holes in the palms’ type