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MerylStreep

Nanadana
A polite request. I would like to read your posts but could we have some paragraphs 🙏 please?

By all means, Meryl. If I feel that my post is going to be more than a couple of sentences, I tend to write it on "Word" first, then just cut and paste it across to GN. A bit lazy of me, so yes, I'll properly paragraph in future.

Oreo

It seems obvious to me NanaDana that this is your own comment.Why anyone would think it lifted from another source I can only guess at.

Thank you, Oreo.. Most kind. GN removed my previous response, as I was a wee bit incandescent when I wrote it. My BP has now returned to normal.

This was my comment to GNHQ.

I feel the poster jumped to some very angry, and unnecessary conclusions. Her post was, indeed, very professionally written. Thiswas why I wanted to know more about it. I would go as far as to say that I have never seen a piece as well written on GN.

It's quite commonplace on GN for people not to reference sources so it is also commonplace for us to ask for that reference. Nowhere did I suggest she had "plagiarised" nor did I accuse her of any "sins".

I am not sure how I'm supposed to have known she was a professional writer. I have only noticed her name very recently. Had I known she was a writer I would have asked her to explain more rather than asking for the source.

She went on to talk about litigation which I found very frightening. I felt I had done nothing wrong. I had just admired what she had written.

Malcolm X has written in very similar vein. In some cases using exactly the same words. This may have become part of the general language used by people who are interested in the subject. I was certainly not making any accusations.

I have never come across someone repeating a deleteated posts before. It is very common, as I pointed out, for references not to be given in post on GN and very uncommon for them to be professionally written. An assumption that this post was professionally written, along with there being no way I could know the poster - new to me on GN - was a professional writer - was more compliment than criticism. I would not want to feel that the often asked request on GN for sources could not now be asked fear of anger and talk of litigation.

A few days ago another poster was honestly scared silly after being told that it was likely that would be sued for saying stuff about Mr Edwards.

‘I hope you are very rich…’ it went.

Seriously?

Foxygloves

Seriously?

Yes foxygloves, very seriously. It was on a now deleted thread. The poster made a perfectly innocuous comment and was told she could be sued. The poster was frightened and distressed. Fortunately, sense prevailed and many other posters reassured her she would not be sued.

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I would like that, NanaDana and so, I'm sure, would GNHQ

Sometimes when writing in Gransnet or any other social media, lack of paragraphs grammatical errors and even spelling errors (thanks to unwanted predictive script) can occur. Not necessarily the intention of the writer. I like good grammar and accurate spelling myself but perhaps we should be a little less pedantic and a wee bit more tolerant since social media comments are not expected to be the same as reading literature which is edited anyway before being printed.

NanaDana

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How odd

I think Full Facts online is worth consulting when trying to work out if one is being bamboozled by politicians or the media on current affairs.

Byline Times is fairly neutral too. And no, I have no proof of that, as I don't know what form that would take .