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    23 hours ago

    “Big Brother”
    -Generic, gendered, outdated

    “Enormous Sibling”
    -Descriptive, gender neutral, unconventional

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    22 hours ago

    I don’t blame the kid. I blame overly zealous professors who put unrealistic requirements on Turn-it-in scores.

    There’s only so many ways an idea can be succinctly expressed. Any other phrasing just becomes obtuse but sometimes students have no choice because some professor when overboard with plagiarism detection.

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    2 days ago

    what she meant to say is the student ran a plagiarized paper through a synonym injector, then turned it in