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What are your experiences with the Mandela Effect? (lemmy.ml)
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See title. For those who don’t know, the Mandela Effect is a phenomenon where a large group of people remember something differently than how it occurred. It’s named after Nelson Mandela because a significant number of people remembered him dying in prison in the 1980s, even though he actually passed away in 2013.

I’m curious to hear about your personal experiences with this phenomenon. Have you ever remembered an event, fact, or detail that turned out to be different from reality? What was it and how did you react when you found out your memory didn’t align with the facts? Does it happen often?

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[–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Taking someone's lead sounds like a British saying indicating the opposite of following someone's lead. It sounds like you're taking someone's leash in your hands and directing them where to go.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I'm not sure, but that makes sense.

    I'll have to take your lead on that.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    "Take the lead" is certainly an expression used in the UK to denote guiding people, as in "I'll take the lead". I assume both come from ballroom dancing.

    I'm sure it's used elsewhere but it may also simply be a conflation of the two.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Yeah, taking the lead I think is a pretty common expression, meaning that you'll take the initiative, but I've used " taking their lead" to mean that another person has taken the lead and someone else is following them.

    Which is apparently not real at all, but I only became aware of this because another Lemmy put up a TIL post that explained how they thought that was an expression and discovered after using it their entire life that it was not in any dictionary.

    Just like me

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