Is the same "geek" as "friki"?
Is the same "geek" as "friki"?
It is related to the members of a new "cultural elite" obsessed with new technologies and computers.
The term geek in Spanish refers to the users who are members of a new "cultural elite" obsessed with new technologies and computers. Jon Katz affirmed in a certain occasion: "The majority of geeks overcame a suffocatingly tedious educational system, where they were surrounded by detestable social values and hostile companions, to end up creating the freest and most inventive culture on the planet. : Internet and the World Wide Web ".
The original English term geek has a broader meaning and equivalent to the Spanish term geek. On the other hand, friki is a word that comes from the English freak and means strange, extravagant, quirky, and that originally was used for people with malformations or physical anomalies (meaning that still retains in English). Today, geeks are people who dedicate themselves with passion, even with a certain obsession, to subjects, hobbies or "unusual" hobbies. As for the nerds, in Spanish their equivalents would be the terms "cerebrito" or "nerd".
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