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Re:Growing up in "404 Not Found": China's nuclear city in th... by onraglanroad on Sunday December 28, 2025 @05:17PM (#46415079)
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.
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Re:Growing up in "404 Not Found": China's nuclear city in th... by schoen on Sunday December 28, 2025 @07:32PM (#46416038)
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.

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