blackines:

wellmanicuredman:

lotterywinnersonacid:

Today a student emailed over a draft of his essay on 1984 and had clearly used a thesaurus on every single word, and how I know this is because the the party slogan ‘Big Brother is watching you’ had become ‘Enormous Sibling is viewing you’ and I lauged so hard I cried

you: big brother

me, an intellectual: enormous sibling

I remember one paper I read that was full of such obvious cases of synonymizer usage but the winner was a ‘relationship’ (between two economic phenomena) that became a ‘sexual act’.