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elixir2 (123 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-18-08 03:40 PM Original message |
DEFINITION: GHOST WRITER:professional writer who writes for another person w/out acknowledgement |
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scheming daemons (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-18-08 03:41 PM Response to Original message |
1. Same goes with a SPEECH writer.... |
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elixir2 (123 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-18-08 03:52 PM Response to Reply #1 |
12. Obama didn't credit Patrick in his speech and Patrick didn't write his speech... |
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amborin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-18-08 03:41 PM Response to Original message |
2. ghost writer is acknowledged |
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elixir2 (123 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-18-08 03:50 PM Response to Reply #2 |
10. Not by definition. Maybe in your mind, it is. |
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Dora (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-18-08 04:14 PM Response to Reply #2 |
19. No. It's between the author and publisher. |
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K Gardner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-18-08 03:42 PM Response to Original message |
3. Since you obviously know how to use a dictionary, try to look up plagiarism. |
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elixir2 (123 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-18-08 03:57 PM Response to Reply #3 |
14. So, what do I get for doing this for you? I didn't realize you didn't have a dictionary. Too bad. |
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K Gardner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-18-08 04:22 PM Response to Reply #14 |
21. Try this definition... |
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elixir2 (123 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-18-08 05:32 PM Response to Reply #21 |
26. No thanks. Mine's correct. |
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Eric J in MN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-18-08 03:42 PM Response to Original message |
4. Politicians do lend their names to books they didn't write. But should they? NT |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-18-08 03:43 PM Response to Original message |
5. So you're saying a ghostwriter... |
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Hart2008 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-18-08 03:43 PM Response to Original message |
6. Political ghostwriters and speech writers don't get attribution at the end of the work or speech. |
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rinsd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-18-08 03:50 PM Response to Reply #6 |
9. The entire thing is plain silly. |
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MethuenProgressive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-18-08 03:45 PM Response to Original message |
7. They know, eli - they don't care if they can take a little heat off Rezko The Plagarist Obama. |
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John Q. Citizen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-18-08 03:51 PM Response to Reply #7 |
11. It's yet another tempest in a teapot that helps our guy. He keeps climbing in the national polls, |
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HeraldSquare212 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-18-08 03:49 PM Response to Original message |
8. The ghostwriter's not the issue - Clinton taking credit for the writing is. |
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MethuenProgressive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-18-08 03:53 PM Response to Reply #8 |
13. That's why you hire a ghostwriter, what part of "ghost" are you DUbamas not getting? |
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elixir2 (123 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-18-08 04:00 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. Apparently not. I thought this would be pretty clear, but it's hard discussing this w/ them. |
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rodeodance (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-18-08 04:04 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. thank you for using your last post. maybe one or two will comprehend the meaning. |
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rodeodance (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-18-08 04:05 PM Response to Reply #13 |
18. question--I only briefly read a comment by the ghostwriter -she seems like a disgruntled |
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rodeodance (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-18-08 04:02 PM Response to Reply #8 |
16. Do you have a reading comprehension problem?--please re-read the OP. |
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HeraldSquare212 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-18-08 04:19 PM Response to Reply #16 |
20. There are two sides to it - one, the person who gets paid to write, |
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rodeodance (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-18-08 04:29 PM Response to Reply #20 |
22. the ghostwriter seems like a disgrunted employee to me. she knew the deal |
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HeraldSquare212 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-18-08 04:33 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. Idon't doubt it - but sometimes they do get credit, like "with or "as told to" etc. |
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rodeodance (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-18-08 04:46 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. I will have to follow it more closely--this was an issue a few years ago--my memory is vague. |
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okasha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-18-08 05:11 PM Response to Reply #23 |
25. It all depends on the terms of the contract. |
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