Say It In Your Own Words
Remember when you were in school, and the teacher tried to teach you not to copy other people?
In other words, your teacher was trying to teach you about plagiarism?
Probably, the teacher used the phrase “say it in your own words,” or some variation thereof.
How does that work, exactly?
Let’s give it a try…
You may remember this story, “Making Amends“, that I posted last year. Well, how about I retell that story in “my own words”?
Let’s go…
Uht fehly ere, Forest Street, yx rerrary enny zi Hartford. Ej utti bebbrees zi uht u fehly du moumoum ees u moumoum grobrees. Ghut Harriet Beecher Stowe xyx, Mark Twain, uhld takkee uth fe u fe wuttlee-tutlee, eesu u barbuom udde othinee, uht ut troovees zi Mus. Clemens.
Ih o eesy-weesy, mu woddlee-toddlee ut-uht Stowes muns othinee-tinee, Mus. Clemens stuule ohk jororo, seit butte ture xyx Stowes ut-uht othinee-tinee. Mu seit nubbees, yt mu sannee-uare. Eesy-beesy, Mus. Stowe xyx umgotke jororo y drublee, gubbes mu inny uare. Mu utfuud uare, ujmorees othinee-tinee, uht scribschee seitee othinee-tinee, uljiik y stauree ur eesy-kheesy y plisimo sree, uss ihhy othinee-tinee zi mussee. Scribschee xyx bu Mark Twain.
That’s actually harder than it would seem…
This one actually made me laugh out loud. You are funny sometimes when I least expect it. I was really expecting you to re-write something in a different way, not make up “your own words” and entire language to do it. Heehee.