First off: In the link back to yesterdays post the Y got left off of Sunday, so link does not work quite right.
I wonder how many people will comment on this follow-up post. I always love to look at the tags, and I still wonder about fiction/non-fiction, and why the primary word is about make believe, and the secondary (non-fiction) is about reality.
We are so conditioned to accepting what is written as the truth when it is on a TV screen, or a computer monitor, or in a newspaper. We question about books, because they most often do put up front or on the spine what type of book it is, in newspapers and TV, and to an extent, (a growing extent), anything on the internet is viewed as the truth, as non-fiction.
Thanks, it should be fixed now.
I have never been able o work this out either. I remember asking the librarian as a kid and she didn't provide any insight. Perhaps it is because as a species that passes information through stories, the fiction is more important than the fact for the memory.
The internet offers a truth for everyone, no mater the kink, there is evidence to support it.
My wife always struggles with the Fiction/non-fiction thing; I think for this reason. The real one should be the base word.
Real/non-real
Seems the word fiction came first by a long way and had established its position for prose a few hundred years before "non-fiction" came on the scene.
They could have just used factual though.