Re:Growing up in "404 Not Found": China's nuclear city in th...
by onraglanroad on Sunday December 28, 2025 @05:17PM
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I don't think that's true. Perhaps in your dialect of English, but if I was down the pub and someone started with, "Did I ever tell you the story of when I...", I certainly wouldn't assume it was fictional.
Re:Growing up in "404 Not Found": China's nuclear city in th...
by schoen on Sunday December 28, 2025 @07:32PM
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I think "tell you the story of" has a different connotation from "storytelling"!
E.g. if you said someone was good at "storytelling" as a skill, then I would expect it to be most likely fictional. I agree that "tell you the story of..." could easily be nonfictional.
Re:Growing up in "404 Not Found": China's nuclear city in th...
by anadem on Sunday December 28, 2025 @06:13PM
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To me "storytelling" certainly includes true stories, and isn't limited to fiction at all; "narrative" isn't a word I'd use in describing events.
The term that has no connotations of fiction is probably "narrative".
I think many languages have closely related words for fictional narratives and nonfictional narratives.