On Jun 30, 2006, at 12:59 PM, Ken Koester wrote: > Mia McDavid wrote: > >> >> 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. >> > Though, IIRC, Lin Carter wrote an essay for =If= (anyone here from > the '60s still remember that mag?) decades ago in which he asserted > that fen indeed spoke fennish at one time. Ghod, that takes me > back with a vengeance (-; > > Snarkhunter > Remember If, thought Analog and Galaxy were my preferred poison in those days. Is Ghod like alcoholh?