And so it begins...

Washington: Denmark is in “crisis mode” after Donald Trump made a direct play for Greenland in a “horrendous” phone call with the country’s prime minister.

The US president spoke to Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen for 45 minutes last week and made it clear he wanted to place Greenland under American control.
Trump then became “aggressive”, according to the newspaper, and threatened to impose tariffs on Denmark unless Greenland was sold to the US.

The call came after Trump refused to rule out using military force to take Greenland in a press conference on January 7, arguing that it was a matter of “national security” that the US gained an Arctic base.

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swirlie · F

Convivial, this post of your's was cut and pasted straight from Yahoo Online News, yet you're writing it as if it was your own creative literary piece.

The whole thing with Denmark and Greenland is speculative at best and most likely false information from start to finish because that's the kind of thing that Yahoo News publishes online.

Adeptlinguist · M

@swirlie The FT reported it on the front page. They don’t tend to fabricate stuff.

swirlie · F

@Adeptlinguist

The story itself has not been fact-checked. The story presented here is a direct copy-job from Yahoo Online News to this website, word for word.

Perhaps the FT got the story themselves from Yahoo Online News? Did that even cross your mind?

Adeptlinguist · M

@swirlie It didn’t cross my mind because the FT explained their sources. I quote from the article below.

Donald Trump insisted he was serious in his determination to take over Greenland in a fiery telephone call with Denmark’s prime minister, according to senior European officials.

The US president spoke to Mette Frederiksen, the Danish premier, for 45 minutes last week. The White House has not commented on the call but Frederiksen said she had emphasised that the vast Arctic island — an autonomous part of the kingdom of Denmark — was not for sale, while noting America’s “big interest” in it.

Five current and former senior European officials briefed on the call said the conversation had gone very badly.

They added that Trump had been aggressive and confrontational following the Danish prime minister’s comments that the island was not for sale, despite her offer of more co-operation on military bases and mineral exploitation.

“It was horrendous,” said one of the people. Another added: “He was very firm. It was a cold shower. Before, it was hard to take it seriously. But I do think it is serious, and potentially very dangerous.”

Convivial · 26-30, F

@swirlie actually no, it wasn't.... It was cut and pasted from the smh , which reprinted the article from the London telegraph...as stated earlier in this thread

swirlie · F

@Convivial
Okay, that's fine. But you must state it's source as an inclusion to your original post by first stating where you cut and pasted it all from, i.e.

It was cut and pasted from the smh, which reprinted the article from the London telegraph.

To not make that fact known is called plagiarism because the way you wrote it in the absence of it's source and with the exclusion of quotation marks, makes it appear as if those words you wrote came from your own literary skills and imagination when in fact they did not.

When you include a source, nobody can question the content of what was written as being fact or fiction. But when you don't include a source, the entire piece then becomes dubious of factual content because it amounts to nothing more than a short story that you made up yourself.

Convivial · 26-30, F

@swirlie i agree that i should have quote the source, mea culpa.... But plagiarism?....i certainly wasn't there listening to the phone call

swirlie · F

@Convivial
Plagiarism means to take someone else's work and then pass it off as your own. That was my only point. You don't have to be listening in on a phone call because that does not constitute plagiarism because plagiarism is about the written word not the spoken word.

Convivial · 26-30, F

@swirlie i do know that and for the work to be my own i had to be there which i clearly was not

swirlie · F

@Convivial
For the work to be called your own, you cannot copy and paste it from someone else's published work like you did and then pretend it was your's by not revealing the source from which you copied it.