Accommodatable? Is it a word?

[Pat "5mph"]

Isnt this an habitually habitable and accomplished site which is more than accommodatable to most of the community

Cristal clear even to me (English as a third language )

 

[Matthew_T]

Uh, so you were plagiarising?

Referencing and not copying word for word isnt plagiarism.

 

[Red Light]

Matthew - a tip...Over the years I have marked 1000s of student assignments (I was a business and management academic), go for the words that are in current use. Habitable seems fine but I'm not sure I have ever heard the word accommodatable. When I used to come across a rare word like this it always made me suspicious that the student had plagiarised sections of the assignment and then was trying to hide this by using a thesaurus to change key words. I'd then spend ages going through the assignment to see if this were the case and inevitably the student would get a lower mark. Just use words that are in use in everyday language, you'll keep your lecturers happy and get higher marks. Good luck.

Oh, by the way don't split infinitives, watch out for inappropriate use of capital letters and make sure you put apostrophes in the right place.....other things guaranteed to upset your marker. Hope I'm not teaching my granny to suck eggs.

Hmmmm......a fair few sections there, methinks, that are not accommodable within standard English grammar and usage, including the inappropriate use of a capital letter and commas.

 

[redcard]

Referencing and not copying word for word isnt plagiarism.

I guess I dunno what 'referencing' means.

 

[Arch]

I think this is the suggestion you were plagiarising comes from, Matt.

I was writing as I speak, the section of text I was copying (and referencing) from a document on the internet and I was just changing the way it had been worded in order to show that I have put time and effort into my work and I am not just copying word for word.

I think I know what you mean, but it reads a little like you are copying a passage and trying to make it look like you're not.

Referencing takes many forms. If a passage sums up exactly what you want to say, there's no harm in quoting it verbatim, as long as you put it in quotation marks and reference it correctly. Sometimes changing words for the sake of it actually comes across as more lazy than just quoting correctly.

I can think of three suitable ways to reference a point:

1. Direct Quote. "The house needed work to become habitable" (Smith, p154, 2001)
2. Referring to the author and work directly thus: Smith suggested that the house needed work to become habitable (Smith, p154, 2001)
3. Referring to the idea, and then crediting it: The house was not in a habitable state (Smith, p154, 2001)

(where Smith's book/webpage/paper etc in question, is fully detailed in the Bibliography)

I haven't written that sort of stuff since I quit the PhD. I almost miss it.

 

[J.K. Matus]

This thread was extremely helpful and quite entertaining. Thank you for a good laugh and a larger understanding on the words, accommodatable and accommodable. I went with accommodable myself.

 

[vernon]

Referencing and not copying word for word isnt plagiarism.

It depends how loosely you define plagiarism.....

I did some exam marking and had to downgrade sixteen out of eighteen scripts from an A level module. Their teacher had given the sixteen scripts grades from A down to C. The top grade that I could allocate to them was U as it was difficult to identify any original work and all too easy to find the unattributed Internet sources used by all sixteen failed candidates.

 

[MontyVeda]

Matt... if you/we use accommodatable enough times it will become acceptable. We write the dictionary!

however i think accommodable sounds and reads better.

plagiarism is stealing from one source,

research is stealing from many

 

[Maz]

[QUOTE 2112016, member: 1314"]It's a word. Just ignore the grammar facists.[/quote]The correct spelling is fascists.

 

[mr_hippo]

The word has been admitted recently into the OED but has nothing to do with accommodation!

I did some exam marking and had to downgrade sixteen out of eighteen scripts from an A level module. Their teacher had given the sixteen scripts grades from A down to C. The top grade that I could allocate to them was U as it was difficult to identify any original work and all too easy to find the unattributed Internet sources used by all sixteen failed candidates.

A Thai university student once came to my house and asked me to look at her latest English project. It was very nicely presented and well written but did not match her speaking ability. I read about half of the first page, phoned her up and asked her to bring her laptop round. I then asked her to open My Documents and show me where her project was and also asked if she had saved a copy on a flash drive. She had no backup copy so I told her that I would correct her work now and would not take too long. I deleted the file and handed back a nicely shredded project.
There was a mistake on the first page; she had forgot to remove three words 'Ads by Google'!. .

 

[Doseone]

The sentence I am using it in: This is to get an idea of any repairs or costs which you might have to make on the property to make it acccommodatable.

I think even if it was a word it would probably only have two of the letter "c" in it

It's probably one of those cromulent words.