Date:    Wed, 10 Jun 1998 00:35:33 -0500
<br>From:    Greg Pulliam <gpulliam[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CHARLIE.CNS.IIT.EDU>
<br>Subject: on "geeked"
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<br>=46rom   Macworld Magazine Current Issue (website)
<br>New Reviews
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<br>from =B3iMac Feedback: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly=B2
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<br>By Philip Dyer
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<br>Arthur A. Messier has this to say:
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<br>I must say that the iMac "happening", followed by the Panasonic/Imation
<br>announcement today, has me geeked. I find the iMac as an object just too
<br>coolfor words. ...I say that not as a Macophile, but as someone who has
<br>spent years working with the public in retail, in libraries, observing what
<br>people really want and respond to.
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<br>Thank you Arthur! Not only have you provided us with your objective opinion
<br>that the iMac is a machine that the public will embrace, but you have also
<br>introduced a new word into our vocabulary -- "geeked." From the Latin word
<br>"geekeo/geekere," this transitive verb means "to inspire joy of a technical
<br>manner." We'll begin using this word around the office today.
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<br>Philip Dyer is Macworld's Senior Online Editor.
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<br>Copyright =A9 1998 Mac Publishing, L.L.C.
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<br>Greg
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