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• ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is one of my favorites because the shortened version is the actual opposite of the original. My family used the short version a lot hearing the long version for the first time felt kind of liberating :D

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  • MrConfusion@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If you read the Wikipedia article on the matter though, the long form given here does not seem to be “the original” by any means.

    The “short” proverb is many hundred years old. The “long form” first appeared in the 1990s by a specific author.

    It’s more an interpretation to negate an old proverb that the author disagreed with than anything.

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    • ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      A little sad, but thanks for adding this!

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      • Whostosay@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Damn bro, what a rollercoaster

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• FishFace@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  No it isn’t, someone on Tumblr just made that up

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  • wieson@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Some time ago I looked it up, because I feared the same. There’s actually medieval examples of the full phrase.

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    • FishFace@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      There is a good writeup on the English Language stack exchange and on Wikipedia all of whose early sources are for the normal version or things like it

      If you have a better citation, please share, but since they only find the Tumblr version from the 1990s I’m saying it’s bollocks.

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      • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        tumblr existed in the 90s?

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