So, the basics of this is that Rogeting is where a student plagiarizes something they don't understand well and uses the thesaurus to replace each word so it won't be flagged as plagiarism.
The problem with this is, to quote an old meme I saw a while ago, English synonyms aren't always good. There's a lot of difference between going for the weekend to a 'cottage in a meadow' or a 'cabin in the woods', and 'forgive me father for I have sinned' is very different from 'sorry, daddy, I've been naughty'.
There's also a lot of words that have more than one meaning, such as 'set', which could be replaced with 'place' or with 'collection' depending on what you're doing with it. Or, looking at older English for some words, they mean something then that is different from what a thesaurus would tell you to use for right now, such as gay meaning homosexual or cheerful.
The weird use of a thesaurus here has led to it's own issues, with 'left behind' being turned into 'sinister buttocks', since 'left' is sometimes referred to as sinister because that's the Latin word for it, and behind is also used to reference a body part that is always behind us.
So, just for myself, to test it, I decided to try a few phrases.
May the Force Be With You=Could the Influence Happen Beside you
I'm going to walk to the dog=yours truly traveling near promenade the pooch
Couch Potato=Phrase Vegetable
And, as my last one,
A Comedy of Errors= Ampere Entertainment of Blunders
So, try it yourself, or use the sources below to find more information about Rogeting/Rogetism.
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