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   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.   
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    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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