The use of "fanfiction" as a countable noun always looks wrong to me*. Like, "I just read a fanfiction." What do you guys think?
@VinnieTesla that seems wrong to me, yet "i just read a fanfic" or "i just read a fic" seems right.
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@chaosprime It's the same part of me that grinds its teeth when people refer to blog posts as blogs. -
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@chaosprime I am aware that being pedantic about a word that young doesn't actually make any sense. -
@VinnieTesla i can relate, though. i'm descriptivist except for usages i identify as originating in incomprehension and herd behavior. -
@chaosprime I have a prescriptivist heart and a descriptivist brain. I tell myself that my aesthetic responses are no-one else's problem. -
@VinnieTesla i don't think it's wrong to advocate for one's aesthetic preferences, but there are sure a lot of wrong ways to do it -
@chaosprime I suspect it's a special case of our general tendency to conflate asethetics and morality.
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