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Think it's copied....?
| Thu, 02-03-2005 - 8:48pm |
What's been your experience: If someone's profile is written EXTREMELY well (I really like when that happens) but then they start emailing and it's only a sentence or two, with improper spelling, and perhaps not even a sentence but a sentence fragment..... do you think their bio is plagiarized? Or do you think they just took great pains to write it...? Or should I give the bennie of the doubt and assume that they are great writers but don't like taking the time to email? Or that they get a trazillion (there's a new word) emails and just don't like writing that much in that form....?

>>If someone's profile is written EXTREMELY well (I really like when that happens) but then they start emailing and it's only a sentence or two, with improper spelling, and perhaps not even a sentence but a sentence fragment..... do you think their bio is plagiarized?<<
Absolutely. Well, maybe not "plagiarized", but certainly I figure that they did not write their own profile. (They might have had a friend do it, paid someone, or came on here and gotten LG to give them some ideas and examples.)
I think that as a general rule, people write the same way most of the time. They might be more informal in email or IM chat, but it's not going to change significantly. Their methods of expressing themselves, thoughts, concepts, that kind of thing is going to change.
An example, from here. I email back and forth occasionally with another user of this board. Her emails are quite a bit more casual than her profile; capitalization is more lax, spelling occasionally slides.
But overall, there's just a feel and a flow that I know she wrote them both. They have the same style.
If you see someone with a long, prettily written profile, great spelling, etc, and then never ever write anything like that in email... they're either the busiest person on earth (in which case you don't want to date 'em anyway) or they didn't write both.
At least that's my opinion. YMMV. ;)
Hmmm, think there are any job descriptions out there for a "Personals Ad Editor"? Could be onto something, between that idea, the web site, and the newspaper column.....
What's YMMV?
Funny story --
I started OLD about 4 months after I'd broken up with a boyfriend. I knew he was doing OLD from before we met, so I knew what his profile said.
One of the first responses I got was a profile that was almost VERBATIM my ex-boyfriend's profile -- one or two of the words had been changed (like "country music" instead of rock-n-roll") The picture was not of him, but the five paragraph description was exactly the same.
I was convinced it was my ex playing a trick on me, so I dropped him a line. Turned out it WASN'T him, just someone who had stolen his profile, word for word.
Imagine the imposter's reaction when my ex-boyfriend responded to him with his own profile attached! BUSTED!!!!
Tracy
YMMV= Your Mileage May Vary. It's a way of saying "this is what I think, but you might think something else."
I know that for a while, there were services that would "spice up" your profile for you for money. I don't know if any of them are still around or if they did any good.
teehheeee. that would be me everyone :) I was just thinking as i read your response, damn I so disagree that this person plagarized because I can write REALLY badly. But in business and profile on match... Its well written because I took some time to think it through.
My grammar "aint" that great and typos are a normalcy for me :) but I can write well and I did take the time write my profile and make sure I didn't have spelling or grammar errors.
so to answer the orig poster's question, i don't think he got someone to write his profile for him... I know because I can write absolutely terribly when its casual like I do with NGOL... when push comes to shove i can write pretty well