pathological techno-fetishist with social deficit

   "Masahiko is seventeen," Mitsuko said. "He is a 'pathological-techno-fetishist-with-social-deficit,'" this last all strung together like one word, indicating a concept that taxed the lexicon of the ear-clips. Chia wondered briefly if it would be worth running it through her Sandbenders, whose translation functions updated automatically whenever she ported.

   "A what?"

   "Otaku," Mitsuko said carefully in Japanese. The translation burped its clumsy word string again.

-Idoru by William Gibson