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The context I found the usage in (which hopefully should suffice here):

> この人ってやっぱり本当に危ない系な人？
>
> 自分を世界そのものだとか言って……それってアニメの影響か？ 涼宮なんとかがどうだとか言う……。

I'm not entirely sure what どう is doing in this structure. Reading a similarly
answered [question](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/56584/what-
does-%E3%81%A9%E3%81%86%E3%81%A0%E3%81%A8%E8%A8%80%E3%81%86%E3%82%82%E3%81%AE%E3%81%A7%E3%82%82%E3%81%AA%E3%81%84-mean)
didn't clarify it for me unfortunately. Should it just be treated as a set
expression like in the previous question, and if so, what does it mean here?
Or am I just misunderstanding どう in this usage (which I think of as meaning
"what" or "how")?
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Meaning of this どうだとか言う construction
> 「～～が **どう** だとか言う」

is a common and informal expression describing how a person habitually brings
up the topics that are quite unimportant and/or irrelevant in the eye of
others.

The 「どう」 part can often be replaced by 「どうした」、「どうなった」、「なん」, etc.

Thus, if I had to translate:

> 「涼宮なんとかがどうだとか言う……。」

I might go with something like:

> "S/he is always talking about things like what's (up) with the Suzumiya
> girl."
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