"fanilect" meaning in English

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          "text": "The internet serves as an accelerant to fanilects. Because song lyrics are readily available online, they have a characteristic linguists call \"persistence,\" meaning anyone can refer to them and reuse them. […] If a familect exists within a family unit, then an online community’s fanilect expands exponentially, like invisible strings across distance and time.",
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          "text": "We already gave an example for this, namely, the Korean word oppa (오빠; 'older brother' [used by female speakers]), which underwent semantic shift in the K-pop fanilect (which as mentioned previously found its way into the OED).",
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        "(linguistics, fandom slang) The lect of a fandom, including in-group slang, phrases, and expressions."
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