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'Cool' physicists?
Xanatic Posted May 23, 2007
Nah, a geek is someone who bites the heads off live animals.
'Cool' physicists?
IctoanAWEWawi Posted May 24, 2007
There's really only one resource for such definitions:
http://catb.org/esr/jargon/html/G/geek.html
http://catb.org/esr/jargon/html/N/nerd.html
'Cool' physicists?
Thaumos Posted May 24, 2007
Very good, I tried urban dictionary too. It all seems to boil down to:
Geek = Obsessive about something considered abnormal by mainstream society - so listening obsessively to Kill Hannah rather thank Pink would count (imho).
Nerd = Obsessive about something considered abnormal by mainstream society to the detriment of their social skills.
Thus you could be a geek and a nerd, a geek not a nerd, but not a nerd and not a geek.
That work?
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