Over the weekend a college student emailed me and asked if he could quote me in a paper he's writing. What has the world come to when collegians are asking to use me as a quoted reference in supposedly scholarly work?
My response was that he could, but why would he want to? I'm just some guy with a blog. Even scarier, the quote he was using was actually a comment I left on another blog. So I was just some semi-anonymous blog commenter. Man, there is a weak source of authority.
Since I had actually paraphrased the quote he wanted from somewhere else (and had said so in the comment), I gave him the reference I used instead. Hopefully he'll use that, but it's not my problem if he quotes me.
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