Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 19:23:17 -0400
From: Ted White <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: found Ghu's Lexicon
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

dicconf wrote:

>  While digging through a box of Miscellaneous, I found a copy of a
>  small booklet, "Ghu's Lexicon, translated from the original Venusian
>  cuneiform by Ralph M. Holland, for the National Fantasy Fan
>  Federation. 1958"
>
>  Most of the words are still in use, but "Slan" meaning "fans who deny
>  they are fans" and "Slum" as "any food" were not usages I had seen.
>
>  =Tamar

Nor I.  Ralph was not exactly in the center of fandom (itself far
smaller) in those days.  "Fans who deny they are fans" was one
definition for "fakefan" in that era, however.

--Ted White
  a fan since 1951