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That's the thing. There's no particular flourish that makes her version remarkable. It's just a sentence.
by towlejunior 11y ago
That's the thing. There's no particular flourish that makes her version remarkable. It's just a sentence.
- DanBC 11y agoExcept she said it first, and versions of it have appeared since she said it, but not before she said it. Telling me that it's just a sentence isn't persuasive in any way. Showing me something mostly similar from before 1986 would do a lot more to persuade me.
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- towlejunior 11y agoNor is telling me "it's attributed to Grace Hopper." It's a special kind of hell to google something for 20 minutes, return, and have someone throw you a Wikipedia link. Oh, you don't know who the Beechers are. They're from the 1800s.