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Saturday, October 13, 2007
It's Not Plagiarism, But... ... Steven Pinker should certainly have mentioned the source for the phrase in the middle of this sentence. The phrase appears in an article he wrote for the New Republic about naughty words: 'Plain speaking about sex conveys an attitude that sex is a casual matter, like tennis or philately, and so it may seem to the partners at the time.' The phrase is from Tom Lehrer's song, Smut: Who needs a hobby |