[Jan Iwaszkiewicz]

This boy has an incredible future as a spin doctor in politics. Great work Janice.

[Rob Wright]

Auden once implied, in a Poem I believe, that poetry was incorruptible because there was no money in it. This… I'm not sure what to call him — plagiarist will do — shows that the great poet's conceit is not true. It makes me ill to think of this idiot stealing other people's work. And for what? The thrill of seeing his name in print? I hope he enjoyed it.

And of course I'm sorry he got you too, Janice, but I think he picked the wrong person to try to abuse. Go get him, Janice. He won't know what hit him.

Rob

[Janice D. Soderling]

Rosemary, that is fine by me to link here. As far as I am concerned he shot himself in the foot when he started portraying himself as a victim.

[Janice D. Soderling]

Ed, Jan, Rob, Charlotte. Thanks for support.

Warms the cockles of me heart.

[Seree Zohar]

brilliant, my dear Soderling.
what a weasely thing for cw to do.
I've come across others prettying up googletranslates, too; prettied auto-translates become apparent when nuances are involved that only close familiarity with a language can unravel, as your case shows.
it is SO important to have all this info out there. perhaps you shd turn all the info into a wiki page....

[peter richards]

Well played, Janice - and congratulations on being plagiarised ...

[David Anthony]

Here's an earlier thread at Erato on the subject:

http://www.ablemuse.com/erato/showthread.php?t=8342

[Janice D. Soderling]

I remember that incident very well, David. Something about a cat that replaced a dog in the poem, wasn't it, or the other way around, I think the cat was on the roof in your poem and the dog was on the roof in the sneaky sneak's poem.

Or am misremembring? I tried to register to support you, but they refused me admittance. That was after Peter and Roger had registered though

[William Cormack]

Just a belated side note on Södergran's "Till fots / fick jag gå genom solsystemen": it's been pointed out by some observers that although Edith Södergran came from a Finland-Swedish family and wrote much of her mature work in Swedish, this was not the literary language in which she felt most at home. Her early poetry was written almost exclusively in German, and she was educated at a German-language school in Russia. Her grasp of Swedish grammar and orthography was sometimes shaky, and there are a number of strange usages in her deployment of the Swedish language. Some have suggested that "solsystemen" (the solar systems) may well be a mistake, and that what she meant to write was "solsystemet" (the solar system). See Gunnar Tideström's biography for more information about E.S.'s relation to Swedish.

[David Anthony]

Originally Posted by Janice D. Soderling

I remember that incident very well, David. Something about a cat that replaced a dog in the poem, wasn't it, or the other way around, I think the cat was on the roof in your poem and the dog was on the roof in the sneaky sneak's poem.

Or am misremembring? I tried to register to support you, but they refused me admittance. That was after Peter and Roger had registered though

Your recollection is exact, Janice.
(One of the interesting things about that piece of plagiarism was the website moderator's steadfast defence of the plagiarist.)