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this can't be real
Have you ever worked in academia? This kind of email could definitely be real, not saying this one necessarily is though
I have never worked in academia, but I've spent time around academics and have read plenty of emails in both academic and corporate contexts ... this particular one looks fake, even if the circumstances of plagiarism are common - this just not seem like how a thesis adviser would address this kind of plagiarism with a grad student
The way I read it is that they forgot to cite sources, so technically it's plagiarism. I didn't take it as a bad faith effort of passing off someone else's work as their own. Otherwise I would agree, I don't think they'd treat the situation so flippantly.
I don't know, the line "at this rate, the only original part of this thesis is your name" implies the issue is not just failing to cite sources, but having no original thoughts or contributions - maybe it's exaggeration for humor's sake, but I definitely did not read this as simply forgetting to cite sources. Regardless, it's so flippant and playful it feels like it was written as a joke, maybe even written to make a meme, hence it doesn't feel like a real email.
That's true
It's not "flippantly" - the reviewer's opinion is there, and the whole message is just a "get your shit together", but in a more polite and ironical form. It's not an official or final review yet, but if I would receive it, I'd get the idea of what happens when the paper is officialy submitted.
Sounds like you would be shocked by the reality if the situation.
who signs an email with "first supervisor"?
it could be an internal organizational title, but it definitely doesn't sound like an academic position and not a part of a normal email signature either