Re: [xmca] Where anecdote got its bad rep

[Mike Cole <lchcmike@gmail.com>]

Thanks Ed-- Restores hope; write to to wikipedia and miriam-web with the
good news.

Phew. narrow escape.
Authoritative source I can haul out and hurl at the non-doubters?
:-)

mike

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Ed Wall <ewall@umich.edu> wrote:

> Mike
>
>     For what it is worth a perhaps better etymology of ἔτῠμος is  "the true
> sense of a word according to its origin."
>
> Ed Wall
>
>
> On Feb 1d. 2009, at 5:33 PM, Mike Cole wrote:
>
>  There is this great deal where Mirriam Webster sends you the word of the
>> day. Lots of
>> interesting stuff there. This one tell us where anecdote got is bad rep
>> from.
>>
>> easy to join and free.
>>
>> The BIg disappoint for me was to find out that the etymology of the word
>> etymology is from a
>> Greek word meaning, in essence, "the one right meaning"!!
>>
>> Darn!!
>>
>> mike
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>> Date: Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 3:58 AM
>> Subject: anecdote: M-W's Word of the Day
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>> The Word of the Day for February 10 is:
>>
>> anecdote   \AN-ik-doht\   noun
>>   : a usually short narrative of an interesting, amusing, or biographical
>> incident
>>
>> Example sentence:
>>   Pastor Andrews often included light-hearted anecdotes from his personal
>> experience in his Sunday sermons.
>>
>> Did you know?
>>   The Byzantine official Procopius wrote three historical works in Greek.
>> In the first two, he dealt with wars and public works projects, but the
>> third was something of a departure from this kind of history. Referred to
>> as
>> "Anekdota," from the Greek "a-" meaning "not," and "ekdidonai," meaning
>> "to
>> publish," it contained bitter attacks on the emperor Justinian, his wife,
>> and other notables of contemporary Constantinople. Understandably, it was
>> not published until after its writer's death. English speakers originally
>> used an anglicized version of the book's name for similar secret or
>> unpublished histories or biographies, and by the 17th century, the meaning
>> of "anecdote" had been broadened to cover any interesting or amusing
>> personal tale.
>>
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