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Terms - often but not always nicknames - used by fans which require some kind of prior knowledge, even if very slight. Eg football team nicknames, calling the Replacements "the 'Mats" etc.

Why does it exist? How does it come about? Other examples? Classic or dud?

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 8 September 2003 09:14 (twenty-one years ago)

expression of communal "inner circle" affection?

my favourite is Soon-to-be-Dad In NYC's "The Glers" for the Stranglers

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 8 September 2003 09:20 (twenty-one years ago)

It's inner-outer circle behavior. If you understand (or not), it places you in the appropriate circle. Of course shortening is *laziness*. Maybe it's the same in Japanese: to make it your own? Like appartment => Japanese changed it to apatoo.

― nathalie (nathalie), Monday, 8 September 2003 10:12 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

Is it my fault this thread never went anywhere? If so, I BEG YOUR PARDON.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Thursday, 16 November 2006 14:28 (eighteen years ago)

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