• degen@midwest.social
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    17 days ago

    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.

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    17 days ago

    I all fairness, the short sentence “Person X with a fan in France” could just as easily be meant either way.

    Probabilistically I wouldn’t be surprise that the fan that blows is more likely that the fan who is a person simply because everybody but a handful of people in the World do not really have legions of human fans they take pictures with, but once in a while some of them might in fact be mentioned along with the mention of a fan of the blowing kind.

    It’s only the picture and us recognizing Lana Del Rey as a celebrity that lets us know it’s one kind of fan rather than the other kind.