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Re:Fierce Nerds by shard on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @10:41AM (#27195213)
Is the word "geek" no longer used for what you are describing? Although there a lot of overlap, I thought nerd referred to strong interests in academic subjects and geek referred to niche cultural subjects.
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Re:Fierce Nerds by helen___keller on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @10:53AM (#27195415)
True, I've been conflating the two in all of my posts. As far as how they were used when I was growing up, the distinction tended to be moot because they were most commonly used ironically or jokingly.
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Re:Fierce Nerds by SyzygistSix on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @01:09PM (#27197751)
That is the problem with using labels rather than talking about what people are doing or what specific actions they are taking.
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