Talk:Squee
Well 'less amenable to dolphin noises' is a wonderful turn of phrase, I think squeeing and fangirling are not similar enough to be used interchangeably, and it seems a bit derogatory. --Betty 00:34, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
- I hadn't created a page for fangirling yet -- though I would like to eventually -- but the idea behind phrasing it that way was to provide an idea of the positive/neutral connotation of fangirl, while the entry itself would include the pejorative connotations. I can add a sentence here distinguishing, the way I do between squee and kink. Would that do? --Vee 00:54, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
has it fallen out of use?
I don't think I've seen "squee" nearly as much since I moved from LJ/DW to twitter/tumblr. --aethel (talk) 18:02, 18 September 2016 (UTC)
- sadly, I agree. We shouldn't remove the entry, but note that it seems archaic
relationship to kink???
Kink is mentioned in the first paragraph, and kink is listed in the infobox. Someone on twitter took from this that the word was first used in the context of kink, which they disagree with.[1] I do, too, but if there's evidence for it, it should be stated explicitly.--aethel (talk) 20:57, 1 October 2016 (UTC)
History of the term
I added this line due to a comment on Tumbler: '"Squee" in its modern fannish use may have originated in the Harry Potter fandom.' But I have found no evidence of this myself. Does anyone know when the term was first used, aside from the dying robot thing? --MPH (talk) 01:44, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
- I can find a use of the term in a private vidding mailing list on 29 Aug 2002. Anything earlier than that? --MPH (talk) 02:17, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
- Also on a private zine mailing list in September 2003. --MPH (talk) 02:19, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
- OED cited a 1998 fannish newsgroup, so it could have grown from usenet and later spread to mailing lists and the web? I couldn't figure out how to search all of google groups before a certain date, but I found a few 1998 examples in rec.arts.sf.starwars.misc. Nothing in the Buffy group. It looks like there's a 90s comic book series called Squee!, but I don't know if it's a cause or effect.--aethel (talk) 22:26, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
Took out three examples
I took out the three unsourced examples. If someone knows the source, add it back in? Or find sourced replacements. --MPH (talk) 16:11, 10 January 2021 (UTC)