What does the word " anecdotal " mean?
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Anecdotal evidence is an informal account of evidence in the form of an anecdote. \n\nAn anecdote is a brief tale narrating an interesting or amusing biographical incident. An anecdote is always based on real life, an incident involving actual persons, whether famous or not, in real places.
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"A stitch in time saves nine."  This means go for prevention, not repair.  e.g. Maintain your car according to the manufacturer's recommendations, don't wait until something goes wrong and you have to spend hundreds to get it fixed.\n"A rolling stone gathers no moss."  Nothing to do with Mick Jagger or Keith Richards.  It means that if you keep busy in your life, you won't get the consequences of being idle - boredom, extra weight, muscle weakness, fatigue, etc.\n"The early bird catches the worm."  A worm is the bird's source of food, nothing disgusting there.  This saying means that if you get to something (a place, an appointment, an objective) on time or ahead of time, you will get the benefits.  An example?  How about a Boxing Day sale?
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Do you perhaps mean anecdotes?\nhttp://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=anecdotes&db=*\n\nOne uses anecdotes in order to informally illustrate a point, with imagery from common, everyday experiences.  Anecdotes are often humorous in nature, and can thus put an audience at ease before delving into harder-hitting or heady material.\n\nhttp://www.toastmasters.org/artisan/detail.asp?CategoryID=1&SubCategoryID=10&ArticleID=243&Page=1\nhttp://www.courses.vcu.edu/ENG-jeh/BeginningReporting/Writing/reststory.htm\nhttp://experts.about.com/q/Teaching-Advice-1730/anecdotes-student-teacher-resource-1.htm\nhttp://qnc.queensu.ca/dhtml/howtowriteoped.php\nhttp://ezinearticles.com/?Using-Anecdotes---Remember,-People-Like-to-Read-About-People&id=10333
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That is a really tough one.   But a chronicle is an orderly record of historical events, so possible "fiction", though that doesn't really satisfy me.  Or some word that describes writing that is scattered and disorganized, and I can't think of any one word that does that.  Sorry I couldn't be of more help.
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Obvious\n\nWordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]\nself-evident\n     adj : evident without proof or argument; "an axiomatic truth"; "we\n           hold these truths to be self-evident" [syn: axiomatic,\n            taken for granted(p)]\n\nEvident &#92;Ev"i*dent&#92;, a. [F. ['e]vinent, l. evidens, -entis; e\n   out + videns, p. pr. of videre to see. See Vision.]\n   Clear to the vision; especially, clear to the understanding,\n   and satisfactory to the judgment; as, the figure or color of\n   a body is evident to the senses; the guilt of an offender can\n   not always be made evident.\n   [1913 Webster]
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it means web log, the short version = blog.  It's when someone writes an online journal with thoughts, experiences, gossip, whatever.
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It is a expession as in "Laugh out loud" letting the person know you though it was funny at what they said. And to some its a habit of doing!
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The meaning is\n\nintelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings) and the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions\n\nSo a sentence you could say using this word is\n\n"I have a natural perspicacity for ....."\n"Perspicacity is the most important skill required in..."
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it means  laughing my a** off  \n\nanother you might see is ROFL   rolling on the floor laughing \n\nDon't worry that you didn't know.  we all had to ask someone originally :))
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An exact definition of a good scientific article is hard. It must be clear and novel without missing parts of the story. As well it must not give unnecessary details, but just the core.
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This is my understanding. You are supposed to read the book. When you come across an interesting anecdote, you are supposed to list it, explain why you chose it, and then cite it...\n\n1. Cary Grant is said to have been reluctant to reveal his age to the public, having played the youthful lover for more years than would have been appropriate. One day, while he was sorting out some business with his agent, a telegram arrived from a journalist who was desperate to learn how old the actor was. It read: HOW OLD CARY GRANT? Grant, who happened to open it himself, immediately cabled back: OLD CARY GRANT FINE. HOW YOU? (Zim 56)\n\nI chose this particular anecdote cuse I thought it was funny (of course you would have a much better answer here...)\n\nSince you got this anecdote from the book you are reading (unless you are supposed to go online and get them) cite the book information:\n\nZim, Invader. Amusing anecdotes for Yahoo Answers. New York: Knopf, 1993. pg. 56\n\n2. On one occasion, Erdös met a mathematician and asked him where he was\nfrom. "Vancouver," the mathematician replied. "Oh, then you must know my\ngood friend Elliot Mendelson," Erdös said.\n\nThe reply was "I AM your good friend Elliot Mendelson." (Zim 56)\n\nI chose this particular anecdote cuse I thought it was funny (of course you would have a much better answer here...)\n\n3. ect..\n\nWorks Cited\n\n1. Zim, Invader. Amusing anecdotes for Yahoo Answers. New York: Knopf, 1993. pg. 56\n\n2. Zim, Invader. Amusing anecdotes for Yahoo Answers. New York: Knopf, 1993. pg. 56\n\nI hope this helps. You might want to show your teacher an example of how you think you should do it, and then ask him/her if it is correct...Hope this helps...
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This phrase has got many meanings... Depending on the place where you use it...\n\nGenerally it means, "hidden truths about something which is known"
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glancing is almost there... you would say, "I skimmed through the paper."  But with glancing, it hints at you looking at it even less... so you, "Glanced at it." as in you looked at it really quickly probably only once.\n \nSo on a scale:\nreading:  you looked at it a lot, getting lots of information out of the article\nskimmed:  looked at most of the article but not very closely... just to pick up the main ideas and some detail\nglanced:  probably only got the main ideas.
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Quote:\nIt suggests that a person’s brain is like a cracked pot, in other words that he or she is in some way deranged. Pot was once a slang term for the skull, and something cracked was obviously defective—a older expression with a similar meaning that used the same word was crack-brain, and of course we still have the slang term cracked for someone who’s thought to be crazy (a crackhead is something different, of course).\n\nCrackpot has been with us since the 1880s, though its first sense was that of a stupid person. The London humorous writer F Anstey (a pseudonym for Thomas Anstey Guthrie) recorded it in this sense in 1891 in a piece about short farces of the period that were performed in the more minor London music halls (I hope his attempt at recording the London dialect of the period is understandable): “Colonel Jinks’s ill-used son discovered the will, whereupon his ecstasy was quite lyrical. ‘What!’ he cried. ‘All that mine? Five thousand jimmy-oh goblets, five thousand good old golden sorcepin lids! [i.e. gold sovereigns] To think I’ve bin sech a bloomin’ crackpot all this time and never tumbled on it! I’ll be a gentleman now, and live in stoyle.’”\n\nWithin a few years, the term had moved to its modern sense of a person given to eccentric, senseless or lunatic notions.
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It means a story or tale that's been repeated for a long time.
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I am going to try and answer you without laughing. Old wives tale is an expression meaning things that may not be true but  are handed down from generation to generation. Some are medical, Things they used years ago not modern. It is not old women sitting around telling stories LOL LOL LOL  sorry I tried not to do that.
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This has it's origin with the military, and refers to information that is kept secret until individuals with clearance ask for information.\nNow it has filtered down into common language and refers to information kept from public discussion. Also, some just think they're cool if they say it!