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[lethargic_man]

SW WINOLJ asks:

do you know what the French would be for 'geek'? [...] as one of my friends, who is a little bit like that in Paris, ie totally obsessed with computers and technology, said he couldn't think of an equivalent and didn't really know what it meant in English, mind you his English as he says is 'special' (in an accent that sounds like 'spatial', says it all really.)

So, can anyone here help SW out? <looks at livredor>

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Re: don't know either

[lethargic-man.livejournal.com]

It's an English word; been in the language for four centuries. The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology suspects it as having been of dialect origin.