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Caterwauling on the Butchering of Storytelling

January 30, 2016 By Fuzzywiggle Furrypants Roo Leave a Comment

MEOWRRROW! As a cat, it should come as no surprise that I am superior to meer two-leggers, but I expect two-leggers to at least make an effort to make my superiority not quite so apparent and to at least deign to talk (or in this case, write) at my level. I am of course, speaking about the butchering of ‘storytelling’. In some cases the use of the term as whole, but for now, I am simply sticking to the spelling.
It is not ‘story telling’ or ‘story-telling’. It is ‘storytelling’ – one word … not two, not hyphenated.  You are a ‘storyteller’, not a ‘story teller’ or a ‘story-teller’. You are crafting stories, not ‘telling’ or as it sounds when the two words are separated, ‘ordering’ someone to do something.
Puss n' Boots illustration by Gustave Doré
Puss meets the ogre in a nineteenth-century illustration by Gustave Doré.
 And while I am caterwauling on two-legger word ignorance, the same goes for ‘filmmaking’. You are not ‘film making’ or ‘film-making’. Nor are you a ‘film maker’ or a ‘film-maker’, you are a ‘filmmaker’.
If you are going to profess yourself as a guru, maven, professional … etc in such things, might I suggest that you start by learning to spell them correctly.
RAWRRRR!
~ FFR

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