Bad words

[Mark A Mandel]

On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, James A. Landau wrote:

#               Another indirect slur, which I have seen on this very
#list, is to use the term "sci-fi" to a science fiction fan.  Them's
#fighting words.

It depends. This is an ever-green topic, like a weed, on the
rec.music.filk newsgroup, and probably lots of other sf-related groups
that I don't follow. (Filk is the music of sf fandom.) Lots of us think
that the argument is old and pointless, and say "chacun a` son gou^t".
Some reserve the name "scifi", spelled thus and pronounced "skiffy", for
certain styles or content.

-- Mark A. Mandel, The Filker With No Nickname
     http://world.std.com/~mam/filk.html