Leo Grin wrote:
>
> Scotty wrote:
>
> > That is certainly true to a good degree.
>
> This is another example of the "Double Speak" I despise so much, managing to sound
>vaguely
> authoritative while saying nothing concrete. But:
>
> > They are so wrapped up in the
> > character they are less fans of
> > any genre than they are of role playing.
>
> ...is a wonderfully accurate way to characterize this phenomenon. Very perceptive.
Hey, thanks Leo. After you slapped me down, stomped me into the ground, and ground my
vitals beneath
you're six foot plus Hossness, I'm crawling back up the cliff with bloody hands, the
cliff you
didn't mention you were going to fling me offa. What doesn't kill you makes you
stronger. I'll meet
you on the dirt road, Coffman Rd, beside the Howard house. Bring yur sabres and
pistols,
har-har-de-har-harr-rr-r!
Now actually it ain't doublespeak, even if it sounds like it, if you have first hand
experience and
knowledge you can relate to. And I do have plenty of knowledge from speaking to non
REH fans that
there is a lot of misconceptions floating around because people who are not interested
pick up
little tid-bits here and there and misconstrue. And it definitely happens in a lot of
other areas
too and it's perfectly understandable. It is in fact a very vague area because there
are no
authoritative studies but I have spent time studying the phenomenon of fandom so I do
have more than
a passing acquaintance. The point is, my experience and James' experience is minuscule
and we might
both be wrong but within our knowledge frame we're not. We do know of what we speak
through direct
experience. As usual, one individual's truth is not necessarily the whole truth but it
will have to
do until something better comes along.
Scotty
