Empire: Hardt responds

Dennis Robert Redmond dredmond at efn.org
Thu Feb 1 18:35:05 PST 2001


On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Brad Mayer wrote:


> "wanker otaku"??? O shit, I couldn't resist. Is this rather odd
> combination of a famous British vulgarity with an overly polite word for
> 'home', some kind of obscure slang I missed out on last time I was in
> Sydney?

Otaku, "comics geek" (transliterally, "home-boy" or something like that), with the same resonance as "Trekkie". Get with the program, man!

-- Dennis



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