• @[email protected]
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    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.

    • BlanketsWithSmallpox
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      11 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.