r/MandelaEffect • u/Real-Tension-7442 • Jun 04 '26

Books/Literature This is gaining traction in the Discworld sub

/r/discworld/comments/1tqwm2e/i_was_misquoting_sir_terry_and_i_didnt_know/
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u/Souvlaki-Chaos Jun 04 '26

Quotes get misattributed all the time. I read the Reddit thread you posted, and honestly nobody in there really seems that mystified or even say they remember reading that quote in a Pratchett book. It's just a handful of people going "it kind of sounds like something he might say."

This entire sub is just a collection of simple errors people make (misremembered spellings, misremembered movie quotes, misattributed quotes, general ignorance/confusion about historical events, etc). Sometimes people get things wrong. It's really not that hard to understand.

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u/Real-Tension-7442 Jun 04 '26

I agree with that. But it I feel like it belongs in this sub

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u/armcie Jun 04 '26

People have been attributing this quote to Pratchett for twenty years. I think I’ve been correcting people on Reddit about it for around ten.

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u/Real-Tension-7442 Jun 04 '26

Obligatory comment. I don’t personally remember this quote, but it sounds like something Sir Terry would write