Categories are a wonderfully useful thing so long as we remember they're not abolutes
Absolutely ;)
I can see how what I could say could have been confusing, I meant "not having the attributes of fandom" rather than "not having the attributes of a fan" although I don't know how much the two are related in my mind. Still, it was important for me to hold up my brother and mine role-playing as not being "real" LARP-ing, despiite being both role-playing (I think the word is used broadly enough to not have any specifically fannish associations) and live-action, since it existed apart from the history and tradition of LARP-ing. Just like when I enact the liturgical event at church, I'm doing something with its own completely distinct history and tradition.
If I discovered a book I previously believed to be a novel to be written by an (extraterrestrial) alien, I'd still call it a novel, but I'd find it to be more problematic a usage, more on the fuzzy border than before, because the term has associations that just don't apply to a work written by a non-human.
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Date: 2007-04-13 01:05 pm (UTC)Absolutely ;)
I can see how what I could say could have been confusing, I meant "not having the attributes of fandom" rather than "not having the attributes of a fan" although I don't know how much the two are related in my mind. Still, it was important for me to hold up my brother and mine role-playing as not being "real" LARP-ing, despiite being both role-playing (I think the word is used broadly enough to not have any specifically fannish associations) and live-action, since it existed apart from the history and tradition of LARP-ing. Just like when I enact the liturgical event at church, I'm doing something with its own completely distinct history and tradition.
If I discovered a book I previously believed to be a novel to be written by an (extraterrestrial) alien, I'd still call it a novel, but I'd find it to be more problematic a usage, more on the fuzzy border than before, because the term has associations that just don't apply to a work written by a non-human.