• TORFdot0@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    You don’t have to have blind devotion to something to be a fan of it. I don’t like new Pokémon but still am a fan of the first 3 generations. I’m a fan of the office but I don’t watch after season 7.

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      5 months ago

      You don’t have to have blind devotion to something to be a fan of it.

      Fan was originally short for fanatic, so it does actually imply blind devotion. Etymologically at least.

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          4 months ago

          Curiously “cake” apparently comes from old Norse “kaka”, which in many languages is the word for poo-poo, but is more probably related to roundness in this instance.