Dec. 3rd, 2022

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I'm still on track to make it through the HelloChinese vocabulary lessons by the end of the year. Which will be fine and dandy for mundane information, but I need to also start learning specialized fandom jargon. I've been making myself a list of terms to look up or ask around about. So far, roughly organized by category:

Basics: fandom, fan of (person/work/franchise), support (the entity you are a fan of), fan fiction
Organized fandom: fan fund
Convention functions: bid, bid table, con committee, dealers' room, registration, con suite, room party, art show, panel discussion, program item, program track
Convention infrastructure: convention center, hotel, function room
Convention people: con committee, staff, member, membership, volunteer (noun), volunteer (verb), attending, supporting, virtual (attendance or membership)
Worldcon: Worldcon, NASFiC, WSFS, WSFS Business Meeting, Hugos, Hugo ceremony, Hugo finalist, Hugo winner, Hugo loser
Fanzines: perzine, newszine, fan editor
Filk: bardic circle, "pick, pass, or play", ose, chaos circle
Furry: fursuit
Genre categories: space opera, portal fantasy, military sf, high fantasy, fat fantasy, YA, children's
Gaming: RPG, LARP, Eurogame, tabletop, boardgame, video game

Plus there is probably jargon specific Chinese fandom.

Finding out that there's a very active feed of news on the Chinese side of the Chengdu site has already gotten me started discovering the Chinese equivalents of some of the above.

What else do I need to add to this list?

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