Explaining the Name
Dec. 14th, 2007 07:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fauxkloreIt occurs to me that I never explained what "fauxklore" means.
You have to parse it as "faux" + "klore" which makes it pronounced like "folklore." Except it's less folk than faux-k. It's a word I made up a long time ago (i.e. more than a decade) to describe some of the stories I tell. They sometimes start out as actual folk tales. But they tend to morph and I often look back months later and am astonished at how little of what I tell is actually in the traditional story.
You have to parse it as "faux" + "klore" which makes it pronounced like "folklore." Except it's less folk than faux-k. It's a word I made up a long time ago (i.e. more than a decade) to describe some of the stories I tell. They sometimes start out as actual folk tales. But they tend to morph and I often look back months later and am astonished at how little of what I tell is actually in the traditional story.
