Pianoforte
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Wow that does sound kinda brutal. I've come up with lots of concepts all by myself only to find they already existed after the fact. With the scope of literature I could not possibly know it all and it makes me afraid to write anything for fear of being accused of stealing it. I mean the English language is finite and even more so when you limit it to three word combinations.
I feel your pain. OH! do I feel your pain. I once had to write 3 10-page papers over 3 weekends in the same class because my prof found accidental plagiarism on my part. Thankfully, he trusted that it was a legitimate accident and simply allowed me to rewrite the paper on another topic, rather than reporting me to the Dean.