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Wrong first, right eventually, and never admits the gap.
means Someone who starts a fashion, idea, or behavior that others later adopt — first on the scene, for better or worse.
from A straightforward 20th-century compound: 'trend' (from Old English 'trendan,' to turn or revolve, which drifted into meaning a general direction or tendency) plus 'setter,' one who sets or establishes something. Put together, the word literally means 'one who sets the direction' — no myth required, just English doing its usual trick of bolting two plain words together to describe someone everyone secretly wants to be.
- timing
- early enough to risk ridicule, not irrelevance
- secret
- confidence worn before the evidence arrives
- side effect
- everyone copies, then denies copying