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lederhosen) wrote2005-10-20 08:20 am
lederhosen) wrote2005-10-20 08:20 am
False history in the making
An amusing episode here, in which a quote from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
james_nicoll picks up the "born and died" dates from the wrong James Nicoll, and subsequent forwarders obligingly antiquate the spelling - presumably, in an attempt to 'correct' it back to the 19th-century form it was never originally in.
I think this sort of thing is behind a lot of the stories on Snopes - people trying to make stories more accurate by massaging them to fit into their ideas of reality.
james_nicoll picks up the "born and died" dates from the wrong James Nicoll, and subsequent forwarders obligingly antiquate the spelling - presumably, in an attempt to 'correct' it back to the 19th-century form it was never originally in.I think this sort of thing is behind a lot of the stories on Snopes - people trying to make stories more accurate by massaging them to fit into their ideas of reality.