I like the comment idea, although I think the nicer thing about the fans is that they are visual rather than verbal. This is why I think perhaps the new "fan-language" is emoticons. :D
Different emoticons can mean different things to different people, though (and it's rarely ever what most "emoticon lexicons" on the internet will say). So maybe it's not any better. Was the fan language actually explicitly described somewhere, or did it just naturally come to mean something that people had to interpret? If the former, one could, perhaps, try to summarize the subtext of emoticons in a similar manner (rather than just the translation of what it is supposed to visually represent).
Also, hi. I'm Chris. I know that guy *points up at shaktool*.
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Date: 2005-08-11 07:34 pm (UTC)Different emoticons can mean different things to different people, though (and it's rarely ever what most "emoticon lexicons" on the internet will say). So maybe it's not any better. Was the fan language actually explicitly described somewhere, or did it just naturally come to mean something that people had to interpret? If the former, one could, perhaps, try to summarize the subtext of emoticons in a similar manner (rather than just the translation of what it is supposed to visually represent).
Also, hi. I'm Chris. I know that guy *points up at