The only thing I can think of is when the student plagarized the work, they changed English money, (I know Scrooge says “half-a-crown”) into American coinage. I.e. “half a crown” becomes penny.
The only thing I can think of is when the student plagarized the work, they changed English money, (I know Scrooge says “half-a-crown”) into American coinage. I.e. “half a crown” becomes penny. No.
Did she get those words from something to do with Christmas carols, not A Christmas Carol?
Did she get those words from something to do with Christmas carol s , not A Christmas Carol? No.
Was unchecked spellcheck involved? Don’t know how a machine would turn Ebenezer into Penny, but I’ve seen weirder suggestions.
Was unchecked spellcheck involved? Don’t know how a machine would turn Ebenezer into Penny, but I’ve seen weirder suggestions. No to unchecked spellcheck, YES to machine-manipulated language in a broader sense.
a Bob (Cratchett) is 12 pennies. Is that relevent?
a Bob (Cratchett) is 12 pennies. Is that relevent? It is not, but you’re getting very warm…
Did the student use software that takes passages from papers and rewrites them to escape plagerism checks?
If so, did that software change a name to “Penny” and another to “Bounce”?
YES! Solved!
In addition to neglecting to read her work over after running it through the plagiarism-spinner, the student failed to recognize that certain character names are perfectly good thesaurus words – “Scrooge,” for example, occasionally got changed to “Penny pincher.” I might have overlooked this (Scrooge is, after all, a penny pincher, so the sentence still made sense despite the odd grammar and capitalization), but I was having a hard time ignoring the reference to Scrooge’s clerk, Bounce Cratchit.
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A well-respected head of state was assassinated in front of many witnesses. The killer was banished, but faced no other punishment. Why the leniency?
My first though was this occurred in Ancient Greece where banishment was a worse punishment that death.
I don’t think Able (in the Cain/Able story) was a head of state.
But I’m going to guess Alexander of Greece who was “assassinated” by his pet macaque who his servants then drove away.
No to all of those, though I love the monkey idea.
By head of state, are you indicating a human person who is the titular leader of a nation?
By assassinated, do you mean deliberately murdered?
Did this happen in real life or was it fictional?
It’s a bit weird, and that’s why it’s a puzzle.
Did the witnesses want the head of state dead?
Did the head of state want to die?
Was the assassination illegal?
Was the banishment done as part of the normal due process of law, for that time and place?
Was the head of state assassinated for reason of objection to his politics?
Was the head of state assassinated for personal reasons (i.e., unrelated to politics)?
Was anyone else killed as part of the same act as the assassination of the HoS?
Was this relevantly during a war?
No hints this time!
Did this happen in the past 200 years?
Last 2000 years?
BCE?
Within the past 200 years.
Was there a legal reason the assassin could not be given the death penalty?
I’m thinking something like a member of the royal family was the assassin and under that countries laws members of the royal family could not be put to death.