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.
Alan,
I am with you on this issue. I do not identify with either geek or nerd.
The store Best Buy has a group of "experts" they call the "geek
squad"; but I would not trust them.
The Apple Store ( two of them in TIgard) has a "Genuis" bar. Now,
that is a term I can relate to. If you substitute "Genuis" when
others use "geek" or "nerd" , I feel more of us would proudly wear
that identity.
Rodney
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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