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The building and floor senses are duplicated. Equinox ◑ 20:46, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
- It seems this has since been fixed. (story is listed as an alternative spelling of storey.) - excarnateSojourner (talk|contrib) 07:07, 29 October 2021 (UTC)
Storyplaying: Agency and Narrative in Video Games Backinstadiums (talk) 19:27, 18 July 2022 (UTC)
Unclear distinction between two of the senses
[edit]I'm a little puzzled by the relationship between sense 1:
A sequence of real or fictional events; or, an account of such a sequence. (synonym: tome)
...and sense 5:
A sequence of events, or a situation, such as might be related in an account. (synonym: narrative)
For context, the latter was added in 2011 by Ruakh, when the first meaning was narrower in meaning:
An account of real or fictional events.
Some time later (in 2012), the first meaning got expanded to be more specific, by Wikimanisan:
A sequence of real or fictional causal events. A Narrative would be an account of or the "telling" of a story.
But it was edited a few minutes after, again by Ruakh, to a phrasing almost identical to the current one:
A sequence of real or fictional causal events; or, an account of such a sequence.
(The "causal" got removed a while later by Equinox, yielding the current wording.)
Can someone help clarify the distinction between the two?
--Waldyrious (talk) 08:14, 12 February 2023 (UTC)
- Thanks for raising this. I clearly messed up — I should have reverted Wikimanisan's edit, since the "sequence of events" sense was already covered separately. Presumably I didn't remember that it was. —RuakhTALK 01:54, 13 February 2023 (UTC)
- Cool, thanks for confirming! I will make that change, then. Waldyrious (talk) 04:37, 13 February 2023 (UTC)