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[Bradford DeLong]

>Brad DeLong wrote:
>
>>From my perspective, the really scary thing is self-plagiarism: 
>>writing a paragraph, looking at it, and then thinking that it is 
>>remarkably similar to a paragraph I wrote last year...
>
>This is known in the trade as repurposing.
>
>Doug

I thought "repurposing" was when you took something you'd already 
written, and dressed it up in a different outfit.

This is when I'm *trying* to write something original, and yet it 
doesn't seem to work...

Brad DeLong