Hi, there is no such thing as a dumb question.
This "message" has already bring brought forward and deemed not to be a plagiarism,
At best a mistake not using " "
What I write in french is :
"I am not in any of the 16 below cases
1)
2)
3)"
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See this part of my very first message on top of this thread
Thanks
Plagirism.does.not only consist of copy and pasting word for word. It is the idea that should one look for when you think that a post was being plagiarized.
Now, if OP add some of wordings and combine it with the article and it as reference. then there could be no problem at all. But, OP owning the idea then it is considered as plagiarism.
Here in the forum, posting a short thread or post might be hard to identify as plagiarism of course some of us may have the same opinion at the time the reply was posted.