Sadly, most people’s lives are a lot more routine. We do the same things, say the same things, repeat the same things we heard. Originality only occurs at the fringes, not in the quotidian.
When you factor in proper nouns, dates/times, locations, and other small variables that may be unique to your situation I bet it's way more often than you think.
Like, for my job the below isn't an uncommon sentence.
"Hey [client], so I've had a look and can see why [server name], when down on the [shortened date], it looks like [issue] happened."
However, I'll bet every penny I have, that this specific sentence with whichever specific variables I used had never been said before.
Even if someone were to convey the exact same message, which is already unlikely, there's a plethora of ways to do so, so it's even more difficult for an exact match to happen.
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u/Kinggrunio 10d ago
Sadly, most people’s lives are a lot more routine. We do the same things, say the same things, repeat the same things we heard. Originality only occurs at the fringes, not in the quotidian.