Comments on: Nerd and Geek http://www.nerdnexus.com/nerd-and-geek/ Further Enlightenment Via Epicness & Geekdom... Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:13:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Your Lord and Master http://www.nerdnexus.com/nerd-and-geek/comment-page-1/#comment-15358 Your Lord and Master Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:54:45 +0000 http://www.nerdnexus.com/?p=1658#comment-15358 I would make sweet sensual lustful love to alliteration. My question is, as brilliant, charming and modest people, why do we bother with applying labels to our social group or others. Clearly we realise that yes, there are some individuals out there who have not developed a true sense of self yet, so morph to fit a marketed "genre". Don't we also all know that even these poor lost souls have unique quirks and interests that make them wonderfully weird in their own oneness! Come on, think out side the heptagon (a word that gets little enough use, what did it ever do to anybody?). I would make sweet sensual lustful love to alliteration.

My question is, as brilliant, charming and modest people, why do we bother with applying labels to our social group or others. Clearly we realise that yes, there are some individuals out there who have not developed a true sense of self yet, so morph to fit a marketed “genre”. Don’t we also all know that even these poor lost souls have unique quirks and interests that make them wonderfully weird in their own oneness! Come on, think out side the heptagon (a word that gets little enough use, what did it ever do to anybody?).

]]> By: Matroness http://www.nerdnexus.com/nerd-and-geek/comment-page-1/#comment-15357 Matroness Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:04:36 +0000 http://www.nerdnexus.com/?p=1658#comment-15357 I prefer the sound of geek, less cacophony than nerd.. or maybe it's just the way I say it :P However, when it comes to Nerd Nexus I wouldn't have it any other way. I love alliteration <3 I found this nifty little image that explains a definition of Geek, Nerd, and Dork that I can agree with although anything could be changed. We can sever the negative connotations of Nerd and rebuild a new definition :D From the album of the Nerd Nexus Facebook Fan Page! http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=152651&id=267285476219#!/photo.php?pid=3959047&id=267285476219 I prefer the sound of geek, less cacophony than nerd.. or maybe it’s just the way I say it :P
However, when it comes to Nerd Nexus I wouldn’t have it any other way. I love alliteration <3
I found this nifty little image that explains a definition of Geek, Nerd, and Dork that I can agree with although anything could be changed. We can sever the negative connotations of Nerd and rebuild a new definition :D

From the album of the Nerd Nexus Facebook Fan Page!
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=152651&id=267285476219#!/photo.php?pid=3959047&id=267285476219

]]> By: Elda http://www.nerdnexus.com/nerd-and-geek/comment-page-1/#comment-15356 Elda Fri, 26 Feb 2010 02:36:19 +0000 http://www.nerdnexus.com/?p=1658#comment-15356 I find it interesting that these definitions are essentially synonymous; and most of them imply that pursuing a lot of knowledge on a topic is a bad thing! I think learning is pretty much awesome, so I'm on your side: Go, Team Takin' It Back! I find it interesting that these definitions are essentially synonymous; and most of them imply that pursuing a lot of knowledge on a topic is a bad thing! I think learning is pretty much awesome, so I’m on your side: Go, Team Takin’ It Back!

]]> By: Jeff DanyLektro http://www.nerdnexus.com/nerd-and-geek/comment-page-1/#comment-15355 Jeff DanyLektro Fri, 26 Feb 2010 02:07:05 +0000 http://www.nerdnexus.com/?p=1658#comment-15355 Wonderful article! I find that the Geek/Nerd definitions vary from group of people to group of people. To my friends and I in high school, Nerds were the guys who gathered in the hallway to play Dungeons and Dragons, every day, all year. We, as the geeks, drew a PONG display across our often-reserved lunchtable, and would frequent the local arcade/crappy submarine restaurant or internet cafes. We tended to think of Nerds as the intelligent ones who focus on and completely dive into one or a few socially-rejected interests (usually gaming or technology related), and the Geeks to be the jack-of-all-trades of those socially-rejected interests. Unfortunately, I find that the two definitions are often reversed, and geeks are generally considered the less cool of the two. I blame mainstream society for messing up the terminology :) Wonderful article! I find that the Geek/Nerd definitions vary from group of people to group of people. To my friends and I in high school, Nerds were the guys who gathered in the hallway to play Dungeons and Dragons, every day, all year. We, as the geeks, drew a PONG display across our often-reserved lunchtable, and would frequent the local arcade/crappy submarine restaurant or internet cafes.
We tended to think of Nerds as the intelligent ones who focus on and completely dive into one or a few socially-rejected interests (usually gaming or technology related), and the Geeks to be the jack-of-all-trades of those socially-rejected interests.

Unfortunately, I find that the two definitions are often reversed, and geeks are generally considered the less cool of the two. I blame mainstream society for messing up the terminology :)

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