Talk:geek chic
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The two senses that start with "the notion" both seem strange to me - I'm struggling to come up with a sentence where you could reasonably substitute either of those for the phrase "geek chic". Smurrayinchester (talk) 15:05, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
- Agree. Not sure about slangy "cool" within a definition line, either. Equinox ◑ 18:48, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
- The use of geek chic to mean the social desirability of geek culture is definitely attestable:
- Also with a hyphen:
- Although I agree, with Equinox, that the definition is too slangy. I have not found anything yet to support the meaning of social desirability of gadgets. Kiwima (talk) 21:46, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
- I've combined the definitions into one (which has citations). - -sche (discuss) 19:57, 17 April 2016 (UTC)