On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 4:28 AM, Yaroslav M. Blanter <putevod(a)mccme.ru> wrote:
On the other hand, if we let this go for railways,
then next we will have
the fantasy, computer games, and anime fans at our doors, asking to
recognize fanfic and such as sources, and I am afraid this may be like
opening the Pandora box.
I do not see how anime fanfics is possibly analogous to railroad fans
reporting the results of their investigation in non-academic form.
There is no analogy: the point of fanfics is that they *aren't canon
and are made up by fans*.
The truer analogy would be "then next we will have anime fans asking
that their translations of official Japanese materials be usable or
their records of convention Q&A panels admitted as sources". And I
don't think that would be a bad thing at all...
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gwern
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