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for eyewitness accounts anywhere I looked (RBMSCV, LCGFT, AAT). RBMS has relationship designator
<b>witness</b>, which isn't going to help me here. I've cataloged a lot of purported eyewitness accounts of battles, executions, other events, and so
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.6667px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> I reckon</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> have most of you. Which makes
me wonder why it isn't a thing<span class="_Entity _EType_OWA_HYPHEN _EId_OWA_HYPHEN _EReadonly_1" style="display: inline-block;"><span id="hyphen1" class="hyphen">—</span></span>unless there's another term for the concept that I'm not thinking of. </span></div>
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I can't imagine that it wouldn't be a useful addition to our genre/form vocabulary. The only objection I can think of is that, as suggested above, many purported eyewitness accounts are heavily fabricated; this is especially true of execution speeches and the
like. <i>If</i> that's the problem, my response is that it isn't up to the cataloger to decide the truth of the contents, but to describe its genre, which in this case presents itself as an eyewitness account.</div>
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Is there something I'm not thinking of, and any reason I shouldn't propose it as a new term to RBMSCV?</div>
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Hope nobody reads this until Monday as you all enjoy your weekend.</div>
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