there was a meme on the Chinese internet which says that any usage of Chinese language is a plagiarizing the Kang Xi Dictionary (the biggest chinese character dictionary ever). and also chairman mao once said that plagiarizing sometimes can be good bc you’ll learn from the thing you copied.
so who knows? maybe what i’m saying here in the post has already been said by someone else who also read this article? so i am — to some extent– plagiarizing.
but i do feel that there is a clear line between plagiarism in a narrow sense and its complementary set in plagiarism in a wide sense. or in other words, me copying someone else’s article as your graduation thesis must be different from me writing about plagiarism here.
but i don’t know how to express it emmm.