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A few years ago a friend at a pub in Belfast informed me that our pals at the other side of the pond, the Freakish Franks, some of their ancestors being German and Italian, thus Franks rather than French, commonly use the word Gamin
for an unruly, highly disorganized and very self absorbed boy or teen; today’s PC-speak for nerd and geek. In contrast the word Garçon is for highly urbane, sophisticated, servile, and domesticated young man. In the world where all web applications have migrated to web
2.0, I find it rather sad that the French never though of coining Gamin as a label for video games from Ubisoft, the giant Paris-based developer, on grounds it can be more market-
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