Meaning of fanilect | Babel Free

Definitions

The lect of a fandom, including in-group slang, phrases, and expressions.

slang

Examples

“The internet serves as an accelerant to fanilects. Because song lyrics are readily available online, they have a characteristic linguists call "persistence," meaning anyone can refer to them and reuse them. […] If a familect exists within a family unit, then an online community’s fanilect expands exponentially, like invisible strings across distance and time.”

“Taylor’s use of language is so precise that Swifties speak in their own “fanilect”.”

“We already gave an example for this, namely, the Korean word oppa (오빠; 'older brother' [used by female speakers]), which underwent semantic shift in the K-pop fanilect (which as mentioned previously found its way into the OED).”

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