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Old 07-10-2008, 06:23 PM   #42 (permalink)
RedEye
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Originally Posted by Aoife View Post
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As I'm looking through this, all I see as similarities is the actual "what" of the text. Of course it's gonna be the same, that's what happens. I don't see areas that are less technical that are put up for comparison. The non-crunchy talky bits that would point rather clearly to someone ripping someone else's stuff, as opposed to just the same information presented similarly.
Considering Lyle's book was published 5 years before WSFL, and the number of similarities (plus verbatim sentences and even the bolded word, lol), it's unlikely that Mike & Alwyn just sat down and coincidentally produced very similar paragraphs -- it's possible but it's very unlikely.
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