This has got me curious, what does everyone think the difference between a nerd and a geek is?Now don't even get me started on the difference between nerds and geeks...
Is one better than the other?
This has got me curious, what does everyone think the difference between a nerd and a geek is?Now don't even get me started on the difference between nerds and geeks...
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I saw the thread title, and went looking for this very picture. Opened the thread, and saw that someone had beaten me to it.QFT
To put it very gently. I don't know that they even ever made it into the main carnival instead of just the dodgy sideshows.Geek: A carnival performer specializing in bizarre and unappetizing behavior.
Pedantry is enjoyable sometimes, but the geek one in particular is always annoying to me because, no, these are distinct words with different modern usage and people use them in different contexts. It's just difficult to figure out which ones.Geek: A carnival performer specializing in bizarre and unappetizing behavior.
Nerd: A person who is intellectual, skilled in one or more fields, and generally introverted
I saw the thread title, and went looking for this very picture. Opened the thread, and saw that someone had beaten me to it.
I've been checking pweb for.. 2 or 3 months straight, now.. I think. I just don't often post.I saw the thread title, and went looking for this very picture. Opened the thread, and saw that someone had beaten me to it.
Where have you been hiding?!
I mostly find it entertaining. Fun fact, though, I did come across the terms 'geek' and 'geeking' in the carnival sense in a book I read recently. The third book of Robertson Davies' Deptford Trilogy, World of Wonders, deals a lot with carnivals in the first half of the twentieth century.Pedantry is enjoyable sometimes, but the geek one in particular is always annoying to me because, no, these are distinct words with different modern usage and people use them in different contexts. It's just difficult to figure out which ones.
Like how "quite" can mean such different things! Sometimes it means "very" and sometimes it means "hardly." But why!?
You really think there's no connection between a geek being someone performing bizarre/unappetizing behavior and the modern sense of "geeking out over something"? Did you somehow have the great fortune to miss elementary and middle school?Pedantry is enjoyable sometimes, but the geek one in particular is always annoying to me because, no, these are distinct words with different modern usageGeek: A carnival performer specializing in bizarre and unappetizing behavior.
Nerd: A person who is intellectual, skilled in one or more fields, and generally introverted
Quite can't be quantified, but I've never seen it used in a context that would suggest interpreting it to mean anything other than a moderate-to-large degree of some adjective. Can you provide an example of it meaning this?Like how "quite" can mean such different things! Sometimes it means "very" and sometimes it means "hardly." But why!?
Ditto.I've never seen it used in a context that would suggest interpreting it to mean anything other than a moderate-to-large degree of some adjective.
It's the principle of the thing. =]I don't see how introducing something into a popular culture market inherently makes it less substantial. Just because people may latch on to it for less than deep reasons doesn't in one way change the source material and weaken it.
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