Zuhnic Laws of Plagiarism

Source status: Attributed to Kevin Zuhn

If you put a law into your own words, you can name it after yourself.

- Kevin Zuhn

Category: Murphy's Miscellaneous Laws

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If you notice that one of the laws you read came from a different source, it was either completely innocent or malevolent.

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