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To fuck around is human, to find out is divine.

• graeber_28927 4y ago
  Is this a thing? Or did you just spawn a quote for future generations to attribute to anonymous and Mark Twain in the coming centuries?
  • generalizations 4y ago
    It's known as the malapropism.
    • throwanem 4y ago
      In this case specifically of "to err is human; to forgive is divine," which sounds to me like Johnson but I'm not going to try looking up the attribution because, in this context in particular, the universe's love for irony all but guarantees I'll get it wrong.
      • throwanem 4y ago
        ...it was Alexander Pope.
    • twalla 4y ago
      Nobody uses those anymore, they're too popular. English language stackexchange offered up "paraphrasing" and "snowclone", which I've never heard of. https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/292853/what-is-it-called-when-you-change-a-well-known-quote-to-suit-your-subject https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/292853/what-is-i...
    • klyrs 4y ago
      Looks like a neopropism to me
    • deleted 4y ago
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  • danbolt 4y ago
    I've defs seen the quote used on the part of Twitter that likely has also used Tumblr in the past.