Talk:Anecdote
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Isn't "well-known" (as in "well-known examples") complete nonsense? Ask anyone -- they won't know either anecdote. Also, it's altogether beside the point whether they are "well-known" or not. <KF> 01:19, Dec 31, 2004 (UTC)
I agree. I'm changing the title to simply "Examples" for now. --NTak 01:01, 14 August 2006 (UTC).......... ;)~ I don't think so —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.106.184.250 (talk) 03:43, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
"Anecdotage.com features several thousand anecdotes about Winston Churchill, Mark Twain, Albert Einstein, and hundreds of other historically significant figures and current celebrities." This would be an advert, wouldn't it?--62.255.236.92 22:44, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
Anecdotes aren't "always" based on real life; an example is Wallace Stevens's "Anecdote of the Jar," discussed in Frank Lentricchia's essay, "In Place of an Afterword--Someone Reading," from Critical Terms for Literary Study (Chicago, 1995), p.429.
Lentricchia writes: "There's a little story once told by Wallace Stevens that I have to replot as I retell it. The story (Stevens's and mine) is actually an 'anecdote': from the Greek, anekdota, meaning unpublished items. More familiarly, in English, a small gossipy narrative generally of an amusing, biographical incident in the life of a famous person whose biography's broad outline has long been a matter of public record. And more: this biography is often--when the famous person is also exemplary--a concentrated representation of the idealized story that a culture would like to tell about itself. Like all anecdotes, then, the one I have in mind can't work as an anecdote unless it somehow tells a story beyond the one it tells." The forest's edge 21:02, 5 November 2007 (UTC)The forest's edge
[edit] Examples
I think i am a anecdote about Morgenbesser is the case of Hypothetical imperative, not Categorical Imperative. I don't dare change the entry because am not sure- please, check this and correct if needed. Thanks.
[edit] Copyright Infringement?
The first line of the entry states: "An anecdote is a short tale narrating an interesting or amusing biographical incident."
The entry in M-W Online states: "anecdote: a usually short narrative of an interesting, amusing, or biographical incident."
Surely someone can do better than scramble a few words around?
DeeKenn 21:41, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
