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<blockquote data-quote="Ace_on_the_Turn" data-source="post: 2694293" data-attributes="member: 27417"><p></p><p></p><p>I do wonder, what's your morality on plagiarism? That entire sentence was copy and pasted from here: <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2013/09/19/224183763/is-it-racist-to-call-a-spade-a-spade" target="_blank">Case in point, the expression "to call a spade a spade." For almost half a millennium, the phrase has served as a demand to "tell it like it is." It is only in the past century that the phrase began to acquire a negative, racial overtone</a></p><p></p><p>I noticed you left out this part of the article; "So what does all of this mean for people who want to, well, "call a spade a spade"? I urge caution. Mieder concludes his case study with the argument that "to call a spade a spade" should be retired from modern usage: "Rather than taking the chance of unintentionally offending someone or of being misunderstood, it is best to relinquish the old innocuous proverbial expression all together"."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ace_on_the_Turn, post: 2694293, member: 27417"] [B][/B] I do wonder, what's your morality on plagiarism? That entire sentence was copy and pasted from here: [URL="http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2013/09/19/224183763/is-it-racist-to-call-a-spade-a-spade"]Case in point, the expression "to call a spade a spade." For almost half a millennium, the phrase has served as a demand to "tell it like it is." It is only in the past century that the phrase began to acquire a negative, racial overtone[/URL] I noticed you left out this part of the article; "So what does all of this mean for people who want to, well, "call a spade a spade"? I urge caution. Mieder concludes his case study with the argument that "to call a spade a spade" should be retired from modern usage: "Rather than taking the chance of unintentionally offending someone or of being misunderstood, it is best to relinquish the old innocuous proverbial expression all together"." [/QUOTE]
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