I love Forrest Gump.
Oh yeah? Why don’t you marry him, then?
[sub]channeling inner 8 year old[/sub]
Some of us can range into the verbose. And yet a search check revealed that even with this thread topic running, the word sesquipedalian has not been used in over two weeks. I think that shows restraint.
SIGH
Try reading for comprehension, I wrote, “Twain may (or may not) have said”. I made no attributions to its origin nor did I claim he coined the adage.
Secondly, the origin is not really contested, the aphorism appears in the King James Version of the Bible as Proverbs 17:28.
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Of course, it’s a simple idea, so it’s quite possible that it has been conceived by others but there’s no great debate.
…and it’s a maxim, not an idiom, you fucking idiot.
There, fixed that for you!
Uh oh. That’s a paddling.
Shhhh! Maybe no one else will notice!
You are correct. It is a maxim. My apologies.
The origin is debated. You said so in your post when you claimed Twain may or may not have said it.
And I can read just fine thank you.
LOL!
So…did you have any interest in actually participating in this site, or did you just want to have a back-and-forth “I’m smarter than you!” “Nuh uh, I’m smarter than you!” argument?
From one of my favorite authors:
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.~Mark Twain
Penny~Were you raised by goats?
It would be a shame if my twelve years of intensive therapy at The Childhood Goat Trauma Foundation were to be undermined by my continued participation in this thread.
Says the person who claimed she finds the posts here difficult to follow.
I said that Nemo? I don’t recall saying any such a thing.
Smeg, I have posted in other threads.
Saucy, I prefer “Of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most.” -Twain
Twain never said that. It’s from the 1960s or later, Try Erma Bombeck or such. :rolleyes:
I Googled it and something came up that said Ozzy Osbourne said it.
Well sam, Twain is widely accredited as saying it. Erma Bombeck not so much.
The first hundred or so hits you get on Google say the US government brought down the twin towers in 9/11. You believe that too?
You’ll be wanting to peddle your tripe on reddit is what I think.
Without trying to belabor the point, I do words/quotes/linguistics as an amatuer. No one used this quote much before 1960. I don’t just read what is quoted on the internet.
Twain would have been furious that such a banal remark would have been attributed to him.