If you hate celeb obsessed culture you should actually like the word since it makes fun of obsessed fans. I like it since shill feels more towards a company or corporations, Stan is made for people stanning for people
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“Stan” is a stupid term and everyone should stop using it
- Thread starter random_polymath
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Feel like some people want to force words to be cool. Then a group does it as well and finally spreads on the forum. Sucks but what can you do? Ignore the use of the word and post.
No, a select few people start using a word, it catches on, then a bunch of people late to the party start using it and beat it to death. People tell them that they're use of it is annoying and then they double down even more out of spite.
You know how people wince when their parents try to use slang, people on this forum aren't very far from what they criticized.
"Stan doesn't flow in a sentence"
But. It does? It also helps define a specific kind of fan more easily. Not quite as level-headed as a normal fan, but not as negative a connotation as fanboy.
But. It does? It also helps define a specific kind of fan more easily. Not quite as level-headed as a normal fan, but not as negative a connotation as fanboy.
I just heard this rant for the first time this week, playing Keef's album. My wife doesn't even stick up for me like this :-(
If you stop using cringe then I'm willing to compromise
Why bump this? To reiterate OP , your POV on this was invalidated the moment you used " cringe"
I actually feel old, and I'm 29. I still don't know what "stan" and "mainsplaining" mean. It pisses me off. Just say whatever the fuck you mean. To think one day those sort of bullshit colloquialisms will be used non-contextually, in dissertations and legal documents.
I agree, bu can we get rid of "fam" first? Everyone who uses it sounds like a delinquent 15 year old.
those two are pretty easy
stan - a reference to the eminem song stan. to call someone a stan means they are such a big fan of someone they've lost all perspective.
mansplaining (not mainsplaining) - a man condescending to a woman by explaining a subject they may or may not understand, but have no reason to think the woman doesn't understand. it's an expression of sexist assumptions.
neither of these are new words, either. they've been getting used since you were in highschool, you've just either somehow missed both or need to take your fingers out your ears.
when someone says stan or mansplaining whatever the fuck they mean to say is stan or mansplaining.
The use of the word 'literally' was it for me. Aggravating to hear it being used completely wrong, all the time. Sounds incredibly dumb.
That was a typo on my part. But thank you for breaking it down. I figured the latter was what I thought it was. But "Stan", no idea. I had no clue the origins were from the song.
Really? I've only started noticing online since a couple of years now. I'm not from the US though.
But it sounds sooooooooo dumb. Even as a non American. It's like calling 'hot' --> 'cold' from now on.
The song is about an obsessed fan that writes to Eminem but goes crazy over never getting the attention he wants from his idol. So its used to call out people that are obsessed with celebrities.
Oh I know the song. Love it. But didn't know the term came from it specifically.
Dear plebs, I wrote this and still ain't trollin
I left my tropes, my quoteline and hot take at the bottom
I made two threads back in autumn you must not-a got em
There was probably a problem with forum's database or somethin'
Ofxford Dictionary said:
William Thackeray said:
Literally used as a hyperbole is already centuries old. You might not like it, but it isn't new.
User Warned: Inappropriate Use of the Word "Rape"
Okay thanx. Yes, i think that's dumb. It has a really clear meaning where i live and there is no room for interpretation, unless you're dumb and mis-use it. So that's why it sounds so fucking stupid to me. A shame they raped this word imo.
But i'm pretty sure it's being used a lot more right now. Almost every other sentence in the youtube vids my son watches.
Stan is more neutral than white knight and less explicitly accusatory than shill. I don't love the word, but I'm going to keep using it. Sorry not sorry.
If you want to be pedantic, your use of "dumb" used to mean "speechless, mute", yet you use it as a lack of intelligence. I guess you aren't as into linguistic pedantry as you proclaim.
Then again, casual use of "rape" as a verb is a sterling example of language.
Yes, such Internet-branded terms as "janky" (dating to the 90s) and "yikes" (dating to those internet-laden days in the 1970s; first known use in the 1940s).
You called?
edit: beaten by a long shot! :(
The only Stan i know
fad
an intense and widely shared enthusiasm for something, especially one that is short-lived; a craze.
Take your snark elsewhere.
True, haha.
But that's also because i'm not American. In my country dumb (dom) means stupid. And there is another word for Mute (stom).
But i did know this was the case in the US, so i still used it wrong.
And yet, "snark" is dated to roughly the late 90s, similar to "stan", so I suppose your pedantry is rather capricious or fickle.
Not really, I wouldn't consider snark to be a fad term like the above. Your attempts to sound clever, while amusing, are somewhat short of the mark.
But the 'dumb' people who use it are some of the greatest writers in history. The word literally has been used as an 'intensifier' for quite some time. And I agree it is becoming more common. You could compare it with the word 'really'. I am really dying here, doesn;t mean you are REALLY dying here. I am actually lughing my ass off! No you are not.
In both those cases words that are supposed to mean: 'Literally speaking' are actually used in a figuratively sense.
Fitzgerald wrote: He literally glowed. He was well aware that the person was not literally glowing. Saying: 'He figuratively glowed' seems to obvious to the reader. The reader will think, yeah duh...of course figuratively. By using literally the writer (aware it is not actually literally) creates a hyperbole.
That being said, I am convinced there are a lot of people who aren't really aware of the meaning and are indeed misusing it.
Where are you from that there can be no room for intepretation?
From their profile, "The internet", a determinate location that is not a one of those decriable "fads".