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Sermon vs Sercon - What's the difference?

sermon | sercon |

As nouns the difference between sermon and sercon

is that sermon is sermon while sercon is (dated|fandom slang) a sercon fan; a fan interested in intellectual, rather than fannish, matters.

As an adjective sercon is

(dated|fandom slang) having a serious intellectual approach to science fiction; literary; scholarly; studious.

sermon

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Religious discourse; a written or spoken address on a religious or moral matter.
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    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.”  He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon , he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.}}
  • A lengthy speech of reproval.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (poetic, obsolete) To discourse to or of, as in a sermon.
    • (Spenser)
  • (poetic, obsolete) To tutor; to lecture.
  • * 1607 , , II. ii. 177:
    • Come, sermon me no further.
    (Webster 1913)

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    sercon

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dated, fandom slang) A sercon fan; a fan interested in intellectual, rather than fannish, matters.
  • * {{quote-magazine
    • , year = 1961 , date = November-December , first = John , last = Koning , authorlink = , magazine = Science-Fiction Five-Yearly , title = The Withdrawl , url = http://fanac.org/fanzines/SF_Five_Yearly/sffy3-23.html , volume = , issue = 3 , page = 25 , passage = The sercons and Socially Conscious types smothered them in significant issues and realistic views. Without their fannish counterparts to balance them, these types swiftly went to extremes in Serious Discussion, until general fandom no longer resembled fandom of the fifties. That was years ago; today it still shows no sign of swinging back to a more genial and relaxed society. }}
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    • , year = 1966 , date = October , first = Lin , last = Carter , authorlink = Lin Carter , magazine = , title = Handy Phrase-Book in Fannish , url = , volume = 16 , issue = 10 (
  • 107 overall)
    • , page = 66 , passage = But let's suppose your fan activities are confined to writing scholarly treatises on the Sources Used by H.P. Lovecraft in creating his Cthulhu Mythos, or deadly-serious lit-ry criticism of the latest Ace paperbacks [...]. In this case, you may very well be dismissed as an eggheady old Sercon . }}
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    • , year = 2002 , title = The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction , first = Justine , last = Larbalestier , authorlink = Justine Larbalestier , passage = Sercons tend not to have masquerades or pay much attention to media fandom. They don't ban fun, however. }}
  • (dated, fandom slang) A sercon activity; a serious and scholarly activity.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 1995 , title = What Do I Read Next? , first = Steven A. , last = Stilwell , page = 370 , passage = It's currently possible for true devotees to find a science fiction convention to goe(sic) to fifty-two weekends a year; often there will be up to a half-dozen choices, ranging from large, general conventions, to smaller scholarly conferences or "sercons ," to specialised get-togethers for fans of feminist Science Fiction, military Science Fiction, gaming, "Star Trek," and so forth. }}
  • * {{quote-usenet
    • , year = 1995 , monthday = May 19 , author = Chad Childers , email = , title = Re: Fandom just the same as always , id = 3pinf6$nh1@tbd120.tbd.ford.com , group = rec.arts.sf.fandom , url = https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.arts.sf.fandom/JA8Xyld-pSQ/N_bqVsoKIIAJ }}
    He's somewhat gafiated from 'Fusion, because he wants to start a sercon in Detroit (and because of his new S.O.) but he still goes to parties & cons.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (dated, fandom slang) Having a serious intellectual approach to science fiction; literary; scholarly; studious.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 1959 , first = Richard "Dick" Harris , last = Eney , title = Fancyclopedia II , section = Humor , url = http://fanac.org/Fannish_Reference_Works/Fancyclopedia/Fancyclopedia_II/hotel.html , passage = Puns and similar witticisms are irrepressibly scattered all thru fan writings, even the most sercon . }}
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    • , year = 1966–67 , date = Winter , first = Fred , last = Phillips , authorlink = , magazine = No-Eyed Monster , title = Your 5¢ Worth , url = http://fanac.org/fanzines/Monster/Monster10-40.html , volume = , issue = 10 , page = 40 , passage = Stephen Pickering's observations regarding the dilemma of the sercon' fan confronted with an undercurrent of unorganized anti-intellectualism in APA fan-circles is a particularly brilliant, valid, and wholly justifiable resentment of the human condition which threatens to obfuscate and perhaps destroy the cogent and indispensible contributions to fandom (i.e., fandom as an expostulation of sf as a literary genre) which its ' sercon intellectuals have made. }}
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    • , year = 1969 , first = Harry , last = Warner, Jr. , authorlink = Harry Warner, Jr. , title = , page = 84 , passage = Its contents were sercon . There were interviews with Fearn, Eric Frank Russell, and Festus Pragnell, it took great interest in Campbell's future plans for his prozines, and it ran photographs of rocket experiments. }}
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    • , year = 1975 , first = Elliot , last = Weinstein , authorlink = , title = The Fillostrated Fan Dictionary , page = 140 , passage = A few of the copies will be sent to Linguistics departments in a few universities. I realize that this is not a very faanish stunt, but rather more sercon . }}
  • (dated, fandom slang, pejorative) Taking science fiction too seriously; boring; pompous; self-important.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 1959 , author = Dick Emey , title = Fancyclopedia II , section = Carl Joshua Brandon , url = http://fanac.org/Fannish_Reference_Works/Fancyclopedia/Fancyclopedia_II/bravo.html , passage = Carl even established a false identity for himself (!!) as "Norman Sanfield Harris" a sercon -fuggheaded type. }}
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    • , year = 1969 , first = Harry , last = Warner, Jr. , authorlink = Harry Warner, Jr. , title = , page = 247 , passage = This seems to have been a sercon , dull group for the first few years. }}
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    • , year = 1995 , date = July , first = , last = , authorlink = , magazine = It Goes On The Shelf , title = , url = http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/IGOTS/igotsnew14.htm , volume = , issue = 14 , page = , passage = This flyer arrived in early December, all in Spanish and seems very sercon , even pompous, but the reptiloid alien on the front is suitably silly. }}

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