[yahelc]

This unnecessary condescension is made all the funnier by the fact that the quote the expression alludes to wasn't actually written by Mark Twain, but in all likelihood by a French writer named Nicolas Chamfort.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/04/03/eat-frog/

[solarist]

(attempt to) being sarcastic ain't necessarily condescending. my take from the unedited parent comment was that it was patronizing towards the grandparent ("in english it is" so and so), but anyway thanks for clarification.

[oblio]

The unedited comment literally has a line above the one you mention saying:

> Eat the frog? Which language is that? The expression sounds _really cool_!

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[solarist]

well then my bad.