Arts & Literature Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

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fanon n. Daniel does in fact have three doctorates, which was a fanon thing that I totally didn’t buy into before. [English Arts & Literature] [full cite] (Feb. 22, 2006)

fanon n. A brilliant first-timer fic that captures just about everything I love about this relationship. (some annoying fanon stuff, but hey.) [English Arts & Literature] [full cite] (Feb. 22, 2006)

fi-fi n. Paul E. Erdman, a writer of best-selling novels of financial intrigue who began his literary career in a Swiss jail, where he was being held in connection with the collapse of the Swiss bank he ran, died Monday of cancer, his family said, at his ranch in Healdsburg in Northern California. He was 74. An economist and former Lutheran seminarian, Erdman was widely regarded as having popularized financial fiction, a genre he affectionately called fi-fi. Among his best-known novels are “The Billion Dollar Sure Thing’”The Crash of ’79” and “The Panic of ’89.” [English Arts & Literature Abbreviation] [full cite] (Apr. 26, 2007)

fib n. Why just haiku? I wanted something that required more precision. That led me to a six line, 20 syllable poem with a syllable count by line of 1/1/2/3/5/8—the classic Fibonacci sequence. In short, start with 0 and 1, add them together to get your next number, then keep adding the last two numbers together for your next one. It’s a wonderful sequence, and it’s one that is repeated in nature (most famously in nautilus shells). Heck, some folks use it in knitting and music,…and, as much as I’d like to say I invented a new form of poetry, these sequences have been part of various poetic structures since before Fibonacci’s time. However, “the Fib” is my take on the idea, complete with a wicked cool name, if I say so myself. [English Arts & Literature] [full cite] (Apr. 13, 2006)

fight call n. On Saturday morning, right before the second show of the day, the cast partook in what is known as a “fight call,” a last-minute rehearsal of the sword fights. [English Arts & Literature Jargon] [full cite] (May. 31, 2008)

flarf n. Tony Hoagland was heard claiming flarf after Naomi Shihab Nye’s reading. [English Arts & Literature] [full cite] (Mar. 10, 2006)

flarf n. My own understanding of it went something like this: “Flarf” is a collage-based method which employs Google searches, specifically the partial quotes which Google “captures” from websites. In its early manifestations it was VERY whimsical and went something like this: you search Google for 2 disparate terms, like “anarchy + tuna melt”—using only the quotes captured by Google (never the actual websites themselves) you stitch words, phrases, clauses, sentences together to create poems. [English Arts & Literature] [full cite] (Mar. 10, 2006)

flarf n. For the past few years some poets have approached Google as a detournement machine, using the search function as a phrase generator and assembling the results into cut-up poems. (In some circles the method and poems go by the name of “flarf.") As bewildering or irritating as spam, this work is defiantly typographic and can be downright impossible to read aloud, amplified or not. [English Arts & Literature] [full cite] (Mar. 13, 2006)

flocking n. Many Holga owners overcome this by taping up the gaps, or even spraypainting the camera’s shiny interior matt black to minimise internal reflection—a process called “flocking.” Others incorporate the light leaks into their work. [English Arts & Literature] [full cite] (Mar. 20, 2008)

floppy n. Floppies, pamphlets, monthlies are terms for the monthly comics that are by publishers. It is usually used to separate them from trade books/graphic novels. Sometimes the term is used as a snobby way to put down comics that some people think as unartistic. [English Arts & Literature Entertainment Slang] [full cite] (Jan. 15, 2008)

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