What does tell-worthy mean?
Tell-worthy means Worthy to be told.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Worthy to be told.
For a narrative to be tell-worthy, it should be about the breach of a human plight, a deviation of a canonical script. Suicide and intentional pursuit of death are tell-worthy events.
[...] based on the assumption that the precipitating conditions and state of being 'split in pieces' result in a tell-worthy emotional account.
But it is only at more advanced levels that it begins to be retooled at story openings in the function of a disjunct marker (Jefferson 1978) which announces that something different is coming up (i.e., the launching of a tell-worthy story) or as part of a yes-but turn architecture (Pomerantz 1984) during prefatory talk that functions to push an upcoming disagreement back into the turn-in-progress.
Use tell-worthy when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Tell-worthy means Worthy to be told.
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For a narrative to be tell-worthy, it should be about the breach of a human plight, a deviation of a canonical script. Suicide and intentional pursuit of death are tell-worthy events.
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