I was introducing my coworker, Ed, to Joanie and Spencer. I described him as a nerd with no intended insult. We discussed which is better, nerd or geek. I've always thought nerd meant uber-smart with some social ineptness and geek was uber-inept with some smarts (the showerless guys that carried around their upteen-sided dice hoping for a pick-up game of D&D). The group consensus was that I had it backwards.
freedictionary has identical first definitions for geek and nerd.
Webster has a more favorable definition for geek.
So which is it?
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I'm with you. That's always been my definition too.
You'll always be a nerd to me Marshall.
I've always thought geek was the nicer term. I don't know I think all my brothers are nerds or geeks or something....
I'm a fan for nerd myself.
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