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Sunday, January 10th, 2010 08:01 pm
Edited to add, January 11, 2010:  I did some tweaking to the usage section of the page.  I tied the dictionary cite into the part about aca usage, so that it now clearly says that the fan fiction usage is correct in academia and American publishing.  I shamelessly borrowed some phrasing from this conversation.  I found some cites, but there is no cite for the idea that the fan fiction usage denotes aca or noob anywhere other than here, and the talk page itself.  Anyone got one?

Go check it out and edit that page or something else while you're there--if the urge hits, that is. 

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As I found out on the OTW news site, fan fiction has hit the dictionary.  There is a discussion on the Fan Fiction page from a while back about usage on the page itself, and about what that usage says about the person using the, er, usage. 

We could really use (had to, sorry) some fresh opinions, and even some cites on this. 

Should the Fan Fiction page use the term fanfiction, or fan fiction?  Does writing it as fan fiction make people think you're a noob or even an acafan in disguise?  Should I have made this a poll?

Opinions here, or on the talk page at Fanlore would be appreciated. 

Monday, January 11th, 2010 12:08 pm (UTC)
Heh. No, I do not mean making a picture/vid about John Sheppard as a tree, just a regular non-fandom related tree.

And I didn't mean to say your usage was wrong, or that you were saying mine was. I just found it interesting that they're different :)
Monday, January 11th, 2010 07:13 pm (UTC)
OMG. I totally forgot about this. Oh, SGA, you are hyperbole-defeating! Nothing can be as strange as you just naturally were!
Thursday, January 14th, 2010 07:23 am (UTC)
It's certainly a remarkably varied fandom, I don't even like SGA much and yet while I was pondering a panel every time I tried to think of an example for a different weird type of meta vid the first one that came to mind was from SGA :)