Mr O wrote:
There may be subtle difference between the above but deep down
none of us can deny that we are not one or the other.
I am neither a geek nor a nerd.
Maybe it's just the era or area that I grew up in, but "when I was a
kid"(tm), geek was a pejorative.
It was not a mantle of honor or a term of empowerment which seems to be
it's current usage (at least among those who identify themselves as
such, the rest of the country still uses geek as an insult).
Nerd was even farther along the childhood insult continuum, being
essentially a geek with even worse social skills. A geek was redeemable,
a nerd was not. "Band Geek" as opposed to "Chess Club Nerd".
-ajb
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