Re: CHAT: Parallelism

Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> wrote:
>
> There was a popular song a while back, "La Bamba", which many people
> knew the words to, without knowing a word of Spanish.  (Funny anecdote:
> for the longest time, I misheard the line "Una poca de gracias" as "A
> report card-a, gracias").
Hee hee hee... Well, what about the "Macarena"?
God, I hate that song! ;)

> ?Que' significa _otaku_?
_Otaku_ is a manga/anime fan (Japanese cartoons, God forgive me).
I believe the word is a bit rude in Japan if you refer to people
who are not fans themselves (like "geek" or "nerd"). Yoshiko, are
you there?


--Pablo Flores