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"The fans are so adorant of their object that they often overlook glaringly evil deeds." This verges on the tautological though, given that "fan" is short for
by jerf 7y ago
"The fans are so adorant of their object that they often overlook glaringly evil deeds."
This verges on the tautological though, given that "fan" is short for "fanatic"; you're complaining that fanatics are fanatics. Well... yeah, but so? I don't think you can directly impute the behavior of the fans on to the target of their fandom. (You can draw some indirect conclusions, but it involves at least a few steps of lower reliability and propositions people will find debatable.)
- icebraining 7y ago> that "fan" is short for "fanatic" Eh, that's its (probable) origin, but I'd say the two have diverged in meaning; "fan" nowadays doesn't have the same connotation of extreme and uncritical zeal of "fanatic."
- jerf 7y agoHence the "verges", rather than simply saying it "is". It's as close to a complaint about it as you can get without quite 100% being there.