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Seeker
Where dat snitch at?37024 Posts
I'm utterly baffled and confused by this....
Dictionary.com definition
Dictionary.com definition #2
Let's analyze this a bit, shall we?
Link #1, clearly states that those 2 words create "a club enthusiastically devoted to a movie star or other celebrity or to a sports team."
But Link #2? That word doesn't exist..... 
But what the heck is going on here?
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/index.php?show_part=56
If you look closely, it's like 75% of all fan club thread titles are titled by that singular word "fanclub," while only 25% of the other threads have the proper titling, "fan club".
I just got to know, how the heck did this happen?
I'm also not one to talk, I created SlayerS_Brown's fan club but I used the compound word "fanclub"
WTF?!
I have theories:
- the first person to have ever created a fan club thread on TL used the word "fanclub" and no one noticed the error when they decided to create fan clubs as well
- "fanclub" IS a word, and dictionary.com doesn't know what its talking about
- There is a whole "Take over the American language by adding another word" rebellion going out there and soon, we will see the word "fanclub" in our freakin dreams
- Alien invasion. Dem UFO sightings may just be true
- It was just an honest mistake that people looked over
IMHO, I am suspecting #3 and #4 to be the most likely Errr...... #1 or #5 to be most likely.
Meh..... probably not blog worthy but thx for reading guys 
Let's conclude with a poll shall we?
Poll: What do u think?DISASTER! ALERT THE TL STAFF! THIS TRAVESTY CANNOT GO UNNOTICED! (21) 36% Thx for wasting my time Seeker (12) 20% Dem UFOs dude..... (7) 12% Crappy blog but I'll still give u a 5/5 since I feel sorry for you (6) 10% Honest Mistake (4) 7% What? Fanclub IS a word. GTFO Seeker (4) 7% What? Fanclub is NOT a word?!?! :( (3) 5% Someone is DEFINITELY responsible for this. FIND HIM!!! (2) 3% 59 total votes Your vote: What do u think? (Vote): Honest Mistake
(Vote): Someone is DEFINITELY responsible for this. FIND HIM!!!
(Vote): Thx for wasting my time Seeker
(Vote): DISASTER! ALERT THE TL STAFF! THIS TRAVESTY CANNOT GO UNNOTICED!
(Vote): What? Fanclub is NOT a word?!?! :(
(Vote): Crappy blog but I'll still give u a 5/5 since I feel sorry for you
(Vote): What? Fanclub IS a word. GTFO Seeker
(Vote): Dem UFOs dude.....
  
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Opened a Seeker blog, not sure why I expected anything different.
It's probably just people copied the first fan club ( which was the first fan club ever made btw? ) title and didn't notice the mistake.
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Seeker
Where dat snitch at?37024 Posts
On February 19 2012 17:53 Dodgin wrote:
Opened a Seeker blog, not sure why I expected anything different.
It's probably just people copied the first fan club ( which was the first fan club ever made btw? ) title and didn't notice the mistake.
What does that even mean? I suck at making blogs? 
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better to check it on oxford dictionary
I do think there is no such word as fanclub, it should be fan club
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In many other languages, you can combine words in that way. Maybe, not everyone knows that "fan" and "club" should be divided. I know that, in swedish, I would write the two words as one. Such things are hard to correct when switching language.
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On February 19 2012 18:18 Seeker wrote:Show nested quote +On February 19 2012 17:53 Dodgin wrote:
Opened a Seeker blog, not sure why I expected anything different.
It's probably just people copied the first fan club ( which was the first fan club ever made btw? ) title and didn't notice the mistake. What does that even mean? I suck at making blogs?
No just that it would be about something silly.
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Did you check for the hyphenated fan-club?
Also blame the mods, they're the ones that edited the titles.
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Seeker
Where dat snitch at?37024 Posts
On February 19 2012 18:23 Dodgin wrote:Show nested quote +On February 19 2012 18:18 Seeker wrote:On February 19 2012 17:53 Dodgin wrote:
Opened a Seeker blog, not sure why I expected anything different.
It's probably just people copied the first fan club ( which was the first fan club ever made btw? ) title and didn't notice the mistake. What does that even mean? I suck at making blogs? No just that it would be about something silly.
-__-;;
I think this could potentially be the biggest scandal in TL history, don't you?
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Seeker
Where dat snitch at?37024 Posts
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ALLEYCAT BLUES50121 Posts
this looks like shamelss self promotion to me seeker.
fanclub does exist in the dictionary that is the collective human brain.
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Seeker
Where dat snitch at?37024 Posts
On February 19 2012 18:36 BLinD-RawR wrote:
this looks like shamelss self promotion to me seeker.
Self promotion in what way exactly?
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ALLEYCAT BLUES50121 Posts
On February 19 2012 18:36 Seeker wrote:Show nested quote +On February 19 2012 18:36 BLinD-RawR wrote:
this looks like shamelss self promotion to me seeker. Self promotion in what way exactly?
sorry total brainfart.
for some reason I read Slayers as Seeker.
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On February 19 2012 18:23 Rawr wrote:
In many other languages, you can combine words in that way. Maybe, not everyone knows that "fan" and "club" should be divided. I know that, in swedish, I would write the two words as one. Such things are hard to correct when switching language.
My thoughts exactly.
Pretty interesting tho.. I'd have expected that the high percentage of Native-Speakers among the active posters would actually prevent that. 75% seems pretty high so I guess a) the native speakers don't really know either or b) they only create very few fan clubs (which makes a lot of sense actually, since a swede is more likely to create a fan club for a swede etc. There really aren't that many British/American top tier players.. )
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In english: Fan club
In danish: Fanklub
So thats probably why people who speak other languages then english would write it as 1 word.
Get a mod to edit all fan club titles :D
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Seeker
Where dat snitch at?37024 Posts
On February 19 2012 19:06 Dirkzor wrote:
In english: Fan club
In danish: Fanklub
So thats probably why people who speak other languages then english would write it as 1 word.
Get a mod to edit all fan club titles :D
I don't think 75% of TL fan club makers are Danish though
If they are, GOOD GOD! TL IS FAMOUS IN DENMARK!
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2018, they'll come from the Moon. This is just the start Seeker, just the start...
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your Country52797 Posts
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Seeker
Where dat snitch at?37024 Posts
That.... is freaking gold.... Oo
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lololol seeker <3 I don't think i would of ever noticed something like that....ever.
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Really weird, it says I've already voted in this poll, even though I'm 100% sure I didn't. Has this happened to anyone before? Maybe I should post this in website feedback, but it's only a small issue.
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