David Dyer-Bennet wrote: >Huh; for me, "fan" means somebody involved in fandom. The term >"reader" was the traditional term for, well, readers, who weren't >involved in fandom. The appearance of significant tv and film sf has >caused that to not really be the right term, and so people are trying >to fall back on "fan" and this is causing all sorts of confusion and >bad feelings on both sides. > > Silly. Those other guys are fans, we are fen. No, I don't know why we aren't in fendom and don't speak fennish, but these are the quirks of the language. Mia