• BlanketsWithSmallpox@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I need to use Stans for regional definitions way more often.

    The canadian Lynx stans most of Canada sans their arctic islands , and Alaska.

    I need to hear this on ZeFrank and CasualGeoraphic.

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      9 months ago

      I don’t know if this is a misunderstanding or if you’re deliberately using an additional second meaning for comedic effect.

      But @ChaoticNeutralCzech meant ‘stans’ as ‘central Asia’ because of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kirgisistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

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        9 months ago

        Yeah the second meaning is also ‘Stan’. It got popularized five? years ago now when there was some superfan of a celebrity called Stan who knew everything about them. So if you’re super into something like Eminem or a KPop group, you’d say, I stan Taylor Swift.

        So if an animal stans the Himalayas, that means they love it so much they live there.

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      9 months ago

      I need to hear this on ZeFrank and CasualGeoraphic.

      ZeFrank is suddenly way more active than he used to be. I thought he’d quit YouTube but apparently he’s back now.