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Chuvok
Joined: 25 Jan 2009
Location: Russia
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 Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 4:10 am Post subject: You learn something new every day! |
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Today, it is the word and concept: Cryptomnesia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptomnesia
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| Cryptomnesia, or inadvertent plagiarism, is a memory bias whereby a person falsely recalls generating a thought, an idea, a song, or a joke, when the thought was actually generated by someone else. In these cases, the person is not deliberately engaging in plagiarism, but is rather experiencing a memory as if it were a new inspiration. |
I always wondered about distinction between plagiarism and inadvertent reproduction of an idea you once absorbed in the past.
Now it has a name! 
What did you learn today?
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Underwaterbob
Joined: 08 Jan 2005
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That if you want to get technical, nearly every thought we have could be classified as cryptomnesia.
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 5:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Underwaterbob wrote: |
| That if you want to get technical, nearly every though we have could be classified as cryptomnesia. |
Well, you got that idea from me. |
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CentralCali
Joined: 17 May 2007
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| Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 6:23 pm Post subject: |
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Today's Lesson:
Everyday and every day are not the same thing in English. |
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Sector7G
Joined: 24 May 2008
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| Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 5:18 am Post subject: |
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| Kuros wrote: |
| Underwaterbob wrote: |
| That if you want to get technical, nearly every though we have could be classified as cryptomnesia. |
Well, you got that idea from me. |
Good one!! |
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