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doggyji
Joined: 21 Feb 2006
Location: Toronto - Hamilton - Vineland - St. Catherines
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| Aren't universities basically for feeding the nerds? |
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Novernae
Joined: 02 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 7:35 pm Post subject: |
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I don't think nerd is derogatory these days. It refers to someone (male) who's really interested in something relatively esoteric....guitar nerds, computer nerds, astronomy nerds. One can still be an 'ordinary' member of society who is not necessarily the bespactacled 40 year old virgin and still be a nerd. All men are nerds about some interest or other. Satori appears to be a house music production nerd (since his interest in that is very pronounced, it's relatively esoteric), Mithridates is a language nerd, since his capacity for language far exceeds that of the 'normal' person. Jinju a photography nerd? I'm - embarrasingly enough - a nuclear nerd. I know absolutely everything there is to know about thermonuclear fusion, as a laymen who's never formally studied it that is. I'm a bit of a 60s acid-music nerd, since I know of music from that era that very few people on the planet have ever heard, even people alive in that era. I say a nerd is a person (male - it's a masculine word) who's an amateur or non-formally qualified expert in something that's non-mainstream (or maybe latter's unimportant).
Nerds are cool. It's good to have an interest. As long as you're socially competent, nerdism is a positive thing. |
I have to disagree with you on that one spinoza. I would replace all of your 'nerds' with 'geeks.' A geek is someone who has extensive knowledge and passion about something that may or may not affect them socially, such as coffee geeks, computer geeks, foodies, etc. A nerd implies more of a social awkwardness and more focus on academic subjects. Geeks have knowledge they may want to share, nerds have knowledge but don't necessarily link it to the outside world. A geek may be geeky about one thing but perfectly socially normal otherwise, whereas a nerd's social awkwardness extends to their whole life. A dork is a nerd without intelligence. The people who don't seem to get the difference between nerds and geeks tend to be the jocks who still feel at the age of 30 that brains are something to be made fun of.
However, since I'm a language geek, I'm going to suggest that this is maybe a regional difference? |
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cwemory
Joined: 14 Jan 2006
Location: Gunpo, Korea
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drumpounder
Joined: 20 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 6:55 am Post subject: |
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A nerd is the opposite of dren. Remember the "Happy Days" episode when Joanie flipped over Potsie? Potsie took a freethrow in B Ball and threw it over the backboard. All the boys called him a nerd. Joanie thought he was so cute and wrote him love letters. Potsie showed them to Ritchie, Ralph et al, and bragged about how cool he was. Then he found out the notes were from Joanie. Joanie didn't think Potsie was a nerd. She thought he was the exact opposite...hence a dren.
Does anybody remember that episode. Or am I a nerd? |
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Infoseeker
Joined: 06 Feb 2003
Location: Lurking somewhere near Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 4:45 pm Post subject: |
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| After reading "laggaiguk's" post, I guess that picture most precisely portrays a dork... |
Dork or nerd - that picture went down a treat!  |
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