http://gladwell.typepad.com/gladwellcom/2006/05/alright_
alright.html OMG in one post Malcolm Gladwell admits he is fallible, uses the word “alright” (three times!) and punctuates with a smiley. This is too much! Update: the “alright” is now “all right”! (Just noticed some people in the comments whining about this too.) Shame, the word is (somewhat) defensible, and the two-worder hurts the rhythm of the title a bit. 22:17
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Entry Posted May 3, 2006
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Jon Udell (jonudell.wordpress.com):
… part of the archive of human knowledge, then it wraps fish. And, by the time ideas pass into their third and fourth lives, we lose track of where they came from, and we lose control of where they are going. See also several of Gladwell’s blogentriesabout a more recent case in which: Harvard sophomore Kaavya Viswanathan plagiarizes a series of passages from Megan McCafferty’s teen novels “Sloppy Seconds” and “Second Helpings” for her debut novel: …
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