For the few “Dopers” not aware of this scandal, Harvard student Kaavya Viswanathan’s book “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life” was allegedly plagiarized from two books “Sloppy Firsts” and “Second Helpings” written by Megan McCafferty.
Well, at least she didn’t plagiarize the letter - at least I hope not.
(I didn’t highlight it but notice the letter mentions that “Ms. Viswanathan can learn to listen to her own inner ear.” Can you listen to any other inner ear?)
University of Massachusetts - we learn people to speak English real good !!
Hippy Hollow
I realize the word ‘then’ might be a typo. Also, the “inner ear” reference is not the most egregious error that a person could make. That explains why I started the thread in MPSIMS. However, if the letter writer stated (without attribution) “I may not agree with what Ms. Viswanathan says, but I’ll defend to the death her right to say it” then this thread would have started in “Pit City”.
threemae
I agree. I suppose I should have been more specific when I said it could be a typo (be it on the part of the letter writer or the transcriber).
In either case, one of them should have been listening to their own inner ear don’t you think?
