| From: | runnerpaul@*****.com runnerpaul@*****.com |
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| Subject: | (no subject) |
| Date: | Sat, 17 Jul 1999 20:56:54 -0400 (EDT) |
At 01:36 PM 7/17/99 -0400, runnerpaul@*****.com wrote:
(Hey, that's me!)
<<Snip part of my discussion on the contemporary definition of
Otaku>>
:The second definition I've heard
:was that otaku meant "house". I'm guessing that it's "house" in the
:sense of "household" meaning one's family, one's company, and the
:allies thereof; and that Otaku means "You and your Household", but
:since this is all speculation based on secondhand hearsay, don't
:take my word for it.
Having looked up into this some more this afternoon, I think there's
also another context. This very formal way of saying "You": "You and
your House" was probably used to refer to these Anime/Video Game
Fanboys because you'd seldom find one outside their own house, they
don't get out too much. :)
One of the neat things about the "House" translation of word Otaku
and how it relates to Shadowrun: In the original Virtual Realities
book, there was a story about a boy named Renny who had been raised
in the Matrix since birth, and it started out "Your name is Renny,
and you live in a big house at the edge of the Matrix." Throughout
the story, there are different variations on that particular line,
always talking about Renny and his house in the matrix.
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