Originally posted by hakimaAxioms are rules or statements that are accepted as true without proof, according to most dictionaries.
Anecdotes are stories, axioms are sayings.
Anecdotes are are secret or hitherto undivulged particulars of history or biography, and according to Wiki:
An anecdote is a short and amusing or interesting account, which may depict a real incident or person. Anecdotes can be as brief as the setting and provocation of a bon mot. (which is a sentence. An anecdote is always presented as based in a real incident involving actual persons, whether famous or not, usually in an identifiable place. However, over time, modification in reuse may convert a particular anecdote to a fictional piece, one that is retold but is "too good to be true".
Thus, anecdotes are not accepted as proof, and axioms are.
"You'll take somebody's eye out with that" is not proof based, and almost an anecdotal joke. It certainly is not an axiom. 😉
I think my original choice of word was accurate enough. 😉
-m.
29 Jan 13
A friend of mine said that when he was going to school as a child
he was to bring a penny every day to send over to the black babies.
Now he's a grown man he said to me that he never thought that
they would all come to Ireland to thank him personally.
He says that there are so many different cultures here now
that it gets very dark around 2 in the afternoon.
29 Jan 13
Originally posted by johnnylongwoodymmmmmmmmm.
A friend of mine said that when he was going to school as a child
he was to bring a penny every day to send over to the black babies.
Now he's a grown man he said to me that he never thought that
they would all come to Ireland to thank him personally.
He says that there are so many different cultures here now
that it gets very dark around 2 in the afternoon.
Dangerous ground. 😕
-m. 😉
