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What's in a name?

cjsmith

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 08:39 am

I'm trying to tease out a curious change (since, oh, ten years ago) in the meaning of the word geek.

[Poll #1167798]

Current Mood: curious

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Re: As to definitions

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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 08:07 am (UTC)

Do you happen to run around in an oracle crowd? As Oracle is founded and run By Larry Ellison, many people I know will loudly exclaim "Thanks Larry!" if they bump into a bug (Which happened a bit too often with OWB 10.2).