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I dont get it. Is Lana gonna kill her or something?
I don’t speak French but my understanding of it is that french has a word for fan (of someone) and fan (that moves air) and translate used the wrong one.
I read the translation the wrong way. :/ thought it was French to English.
Ok, what’d I miss?
From context I believe it translated fan into what would be a cooling device, instead of someone that really likes something
Oh that’s makes sense, I thought Bing was translating it from French to English before reading this
Correct! The translation is fine, except that “fan” was interpreted as the device that moves air.
I was wondering if “fanatic” ironically could have come from the French language. Looking at the etymology I’m now wondering if “fanum tax” stems from Latin.
https://www.etymonline.com/word/fan
“devotee,” 1889, American English, originally of baseball enthusiasts, probably a shortening of fanatic, but it may be influenced by the fancy, a collective term for followers of a certain hobby or sport (especially boxing); see fancy (n.). There is an isolated use from 1682, but the modern word likely is a late 19c. formation. Fan mail attested from 1920, in a Hollywood context; Fan club attested by 1930.
Looking up etymologies always teaches something new. Now I can’t stop thinking of “fans” as “fanciers” basically.
