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October 2nd, 2008
Invented implies that you are the first person ever to do it.
What if you came about it independently of your own accord,
but someone beat you to the temporal punch?
Is there a word for this?
Quasi-inventor?
Inadvertent copycat?
Cultural pioneer, but ultimate loser?
Examples:
• Who invented spaghetti?
• Who insulted puns first?
• Who made up the word gleek?
• Who invented such-and-such theorem that I can’t think of right now?
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