Many situations shared with friends become anecdotes.
It is believed that the term anecdote comes from the French word anecdote , which in turn would derive from a Greek concept. An anecdote is a short story where some curious matter is related for fun or as an example .
For example: «Miguel, tell the anecdote about the boat again, which is very funny» , «The audience began to laugh when the actor told an anecdote from his adolescence» , «Have they told you the incredible anecdote about Julio with Lionel Messi? ?» .
The art of telling an anecdote
The anecdotes revolve around real events . However, in order to make them more engaging, it is common for the person to exaggerate certain issues or include elements that are not true.
It is common for very charismatic people, those who possess a peculiar grace , to entertain their friends and family with anecdotes that are often difficult to believe. In this sense, we can say that they are part of the same group of stories as jokes , since they serve to break the ice and liven up meetings , as long as they are told by the right person.
Entertainment journalists often ask their interviewees to tell funny anecdotes quite frequently, as this can lead to very funny situations. Given that many famous people come from difficult pasts and have had to overcome numerous obstacles to achieve their dreams, it is not unusual that along their path they have accumulated a series of absurd stories , which usually elicit the comment "better laugh than cry."
Anecdotal situations
A technical problem in the middle of a live performance, a mistake in one of the actors' clothing, a microphone that stops working at the worst possible moment , a scream from a person in the audience or an untimely rain, among others. An endless number of other factors can trigger an anecdote that entertains thousands of people for years.
The anecdotes usually have funny content.
Generally, the funniest anecdotes are those that present embarrassing situations, because they are the ones that reach the public most easily; On the other hand, those in which there are internal codes that only those close to the narrator understand do not arouse much interest. In any case, the way in which the facts are told always plays a very important role, sometimes even more important than the story itself.
Many times anecdotes serve to illustrate a situation or to make an idea easier to understand. A political leader seeking to explain his economic program to the population can use an anecdote to demonstrate how his plan impacts daily life. A football technical director, for his part, can tell an anecdote to the members of the team he manages to try to prove something to the players.
The anecdote as a currently irrelevant fact
An anecdote can also be a simple curiosity or something that lacks relevance : "I have an anecdote to tell you: I just ran into Gastón on the street and, when I greeted him, he didn't recognize me because of my new hairstyle," "The discussion I had "With the commercial manager it is no longer more than an anecdote: we both agreed and decided to work together to promote the growth of the company."
According to this view, an anecdote is a situation that may have had importance in the past, but has lost it. Usually it is something of relative negativity, such as an argument or a problem that used to cause concern, but now no longer has the same character, but has become a trivial thing. In these cases it is also possible to use the adjective anecdotal to describe situations that have become anecdotes.