I mean, how many ways are there to say 'Tomatoes need to be planted when the soil is warm.'? [Grumble]
True.
And I dunno why using certain common sentences such as definitions or even stereotyped answers to certain common questions in stories would be considered plagiarism.
I mean if I were to say,
"Hi. I'm Lane, Lois Lane."
then does it really mean that I'm stealing Ian Fleming's (or whoever's) words, especially if I really liked my martini "Shaken, not stirred."
In fact, none of the words/sentences I've learned ever since birth are mine. I copied my parents...
What I mean is, somewhere along the way, I might have been influenced by the so many great books and stories that I've read and the words of certain authors who've influenced me are so engraved, etched and carved into my mind that I might have unconsciously (without opening any such material for the usual ctrl+C and ctrl+V) reproduced them in my own stories.
Is that copying? Or stealing words?
