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-Defined in the dictionary
as <i>Pejorative
applied to anyone with an above-average IQ and few gifts at small talk and ordinary social rituals.
</i> I don't think you really want to be one of these.
+Defined [
in the jargonfile | JargonFile:nerd]
as a
<i>pejorative
applied to anyone with an above-average IQ and few gifts at small talk and ordinary social rituals</i>.
I don't think you really want to be one of these.
-The word itself is derived from Dr
. Seuss
's 1950 book <i>If I Ran The Zoo</i>:
+In pre-InterNet land, a [Nerd] and a [Geek] were roughly the same thing
. Today, a [Geek] is someone with a passion for technical pursuits (usually, but not necessarily, computer-related), while a [Nerd] is the stereotypical RPG-playing social outcast who is so tied up in their passion they don
't see anything else, like making time for PersonalHygiene or stepping into the BigBlueRoom.
- And then, just to show them, I'll sail to Ka-Troo %%%
- And Bring Back an It-Kutch, a Preep and a Proo, %%%
- A Nerkle, a Nerd, and a Seersucker, too!
-
-In pre-InterNet land,
a [Nerd
] and a [Geek] were roughly the same thing. Today, a [Geek] is someone with a passion for technical pursuits (usually computer-related), while
a [Nerd] is the stereotypical RPG-playing, smelly, social outcast
.
+"The difference between
a [Geek
] and a [Nerd] is that
the geek can get chicks
."