Kenneth Gorelick wrote: > > 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? Don't think so. Fen sorta came up with it duringh the 30s-40s time frame. I think that would have made it Ghalaxy, BTW, if it had been around (-; LinC reports someone with an advanced stereo pointing all the speakers at NJ from NY & playingh the 1812 Overture full bore, makingh residents think they were beingh attacked! There was a schismatic version of ghod-ism, but I don't recall the particulars. . . . Snarkhunter > >