Re: CHAT: Parallelism
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, June 16, 1999, 12:40 |
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At 01:32 16/06/1999 -0500, you wrote:
>FFlores wrote:
>> I know what you mean. I've picked up a couple of Japanese
>> songs (my brother's an _otaku_
>
>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"). ?Que' significa _otaku_?
>
It means "fan" in Japanese. More exactly, an otaku is someone who is
nearly devoted to the thing or the person s/he likes. This phenomenon is
more important than simple fans in occidental countries. But for instance,
someone who likes Elvis Presley, lives in a house where every piece of
furniture is devoted to the King, trains to speak like the King, behave
like the King, wears like the King, then he can be called _otaku_. I'm
exaggerating of course (but not so much :) ). Well, I think that I'm near
to an otaku myself when I think of it (Moon Prism Power, make up! :) ).
Christophe Grandsire
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