Miriam
I stan him!
This week I saw these sentences on FB in support of famous persons (one was a politician, the other a famous actor): "I stan him!" "We stan him!"

The first time I saw this, I mistook it for a typo and thought that the other user intended to write "I stand by him!". But when I saw it the second time, I thought that there must be more to it and, yeah, apparently "to stan" is a verb: <a href="https://theoutline.com/post/2425/when-stan-became-a-verb?zd=1&zi=kb4kksn6" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://theoutline.com/post/2425/when-stan-became-a-verb?zd=1&zi=kb4kksn6</a>;. This article states the following:

"Only the most pop culturally isolated English speakers don’t know what the word “stan” means. Its origins lie in Eminem’s 2000 hit song “Stan,” about an overzealous fan, and has come to describe anyone who takes their love of a particular artist or entertainment franchise to new extremes. (For Eminem’s fictional Stan, portrayed in the music video by actor Devon Sawa, that extreme meant murdering himself, his girlfriend, played by Dido, and their unborn child by driving their car off of a bridge.) The use of “stan” as a noun gradually gained popularity."

The article then explains how the name "Stan" developed into the verb "to stan" and came into use.

My questions are:
Do you know and use "to stan"? Do you know other names that turned into verbs? [out of the top of my head I know "to shanghai" but don't know other English examples where names turned into verbs]


2019年12月21日 14:59
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Miriam none of them are derived from names. Not that I know of.
You are right with the unf meaning.
The meanings of the following words/phrases are things I've learned over the last 15 or so years from online friends that were in 'fandoms'.
Flail- in the physical sense when fangirls/fanboys are happy they flap their hands and waves their arms like they are a bird trying to fly. (sounds silly I know).
unf- your definition was right.
'I can't even'- when you're so at a loss for words.
'what is air'- when you feel breathless during fangirling and are so in awe
ship- when you enjoy the idea of two people together that aren't actually together in real life
otp- stands for 'One True Pairing'. kind of relating back to ship. It's your favorite ship of two people together.
feels- are all the feelings that you feel when you're fangirling.
fangirling- this can be a range of reactions/emotions.
squee- the sound girls make sometimes when they're fangirling. It's like a high pitched fire engine racing down the street kind of sound.
2019年12月21日
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“Only the most pop culturally isolated…”? That seems like a bit of an exaggeration, or maybe I’m guilty as charged. I’ve never heard or used the word. As far as listening to Eminem songs, that driving off the bridge idea is beginning to seem like an appealing option. 

2019年12月21日
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Joe:

I agree with Alice. Slang words are generational. They come and go pretty rapidly. As someone who grew up in the 90s, I don’t use contemporary slang. I’m familiar with it, but it’s not something in my native lexicon. It would sound weird if I used words like “stan”. These words don’t have the time to make it into the formal/written language. They don’t stand a chance to kill the language.

Additionally, text-speak expressions like “lawl” and “eksdee” are usually said tongue in cheek. Youth culture nowadays is filled with irony.
2019年12月21日
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Ok, so I learnt that nouns, adjectives and verbs that are named after people are called eponyms. There are 5 different kind of eponyms: <a href="https://www.dailywritingtips.com/5-types-of-eponyms/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.dailywritingtips.com/5-types-of-eponyms/</a>;
<ol><li>Product eponyms: to google, to hoover</li><li>Historical and geographical eponyms: boycott, chauvinism</li><li>literary eponyms: homeric, kafkaesque</li><li>mythological eponyms: tantalizing, Sisyphean</li><li>Scientific eponyms: volt, diesel, dahlia</li></ol>
2019年12月21日
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@Alice
Are any of the words you cited verbs that were derived from names? Do you mind explaining their meaning because I don't know most of them. Wiktionary explains "unf" as "Inarticulate grunt of desire issued upon sighting someone sexually attractive, or made in response to a spasm of pleasure during sexual intercourse." (<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/unf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/unf</a>;). I know "to flail" only as beating with a flail. The top definition of "to flail" in the Urban Dictionary is "To be extremely high on meth. To the point where the person is trying to take apart and put together working electronics/gadgets while having 6 conversations with different people at once and not accomplishing ANYTHING, generally resulting in at least 1 person getting very angry." (<a href="https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=flail" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=flail</a>;). I'm not sure that this is what you meant here.
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