Subj : Ru
To   : Ardith Hinton
From : Alexander Koryagin
Date : Mon Jul 08 2024 13:26:52


Hi, Ardith Hinton!
I read your message from 03.07.2024 01:46


AK>> -----Beginning of the citation-----
AK>> Why do French people eat snails?
AK>> They don't like fast food.
AK>> ----- The end of the citation -----

 AH> This is an example of what I would call a "riddle", i.e. a puzzling
 AH> or misleading question which when used as a joke often involves a
 AH> play on words.

 AH> Another example: Q. What do you call an angry carrot? A. A steamed
 AH> vegetable.

 AK>> A Collection of Intermediate Anecdotes in American English

 AH> Hmm. While my American dictionaries seem to agree that an anecdote
 AH> is a story which other people may find entertaining &/or amusing,
 AH> many of them also take into account that (as Anton said, and as a
 AH> Canadian I agree) that as far as we're concerned such stories are
 AH> typically autobiographical or at least reported by a person who if
 AH> not on the scene at the time has done their homework.... :-)

So, what is your variant? Jokes?

BTW Webster is not very categorical on the issue:
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Anecdote: a usually short narrative of an interesting, amusing, or biographical incident
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Bye, Ardith!
Alexander Koryagin
english_tutor 2024

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