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Evilbunny Highlie Posts: 790 From: A Calculus book near you... Registered: Nov 2001	posted November 08, 2001 16:48 I need an expert's help here! Thanks! IP: Logged
Steen SuperBlabberMouth! Posts: 1269 From: Maryville, TN, USA Registered: Jan 2000	posted November 08, 2001 21:18 First, all three and spelled and pronouced differently. Beyond that, they all have something in common... everybody has a slightly different definition for each and most of the time, the definitions overlap enough to make it impossible to specify definitive differences between them. IP: Logged
Beej unregistered	posted November 09, 2001 14:09 "Dork" is purely derogative. There is no implication of any skills (or useful knowledge) whatsoever. Interest may be present, but no actual skills. "Nerd" is also derogative but skills and/or knowledge are present. However a useful outlet for those skills is usually missing. Amateur status is also implied. For example: a "Computer Nerd" is most likely your neighbor who is quite familiar with the workings of the internet. (He/She might be able to install an extra hard-disk in a computer but is clueless about LVD SCSI. "Geek" is similar to "Nerd" in basic description. "Geek" however implies hireability (for their skills and/or knowledge). Key to "Geek" is the implication of hireability. IP: Logged
Evilbunny Highlie Posts: 790 From: A Calculus book near you... Registered: Nov 2001	posted November 09, 2001 19:40 Ahhh! I have been enlightened! Thank you all! IP: Logged
Zen Master unregistered	posted November 10, 2001 05:24 "Geek" is someone who gets geeked about technology, science, whatever. "Nerd" could be a geek, but dresses oddly and is somewhat lacking in social skills. "Dork" could be a geek and/or a nerd, but has an annoying habit of acting like a nerd-jock and spouting off facts when people dont care, or trying to "one-up" people with knowledge. Dork is totally lacking in social skills. Unfortunately for geeks and nerds, they are often equated with the dork. IP: Logged
tafkact Highlie Posts: 656 From: nowhere, man Registered: Jan 2000	posted June 25, 2002 22:38 how about exapnding a bit on some of these.. there's a few ppl i have pointed this page out to and it needs a bit "more" IP: Logged
Alien Investor Assimilated Posts: 384 From: New York City Registered: Jan 2000	posted June 26, 2002 00:16 How about some examples? Linux dork: posts "open sources rules! Micro$soft suxors!" messages regularly on Slashdot (and everywhere else, too). Linux nerd: installs Linux and uses it. Linux geek: fixes the bugs, sends bug fix patches to authors, patches appear in the next version. (That used to be me, right now I am only a Linux user, not a developer). Fitness dork: wears lycra, but never breaks a sweat. Fitness nerd: runs a 5K every now and then, and everbody within earshot hears about it. (That's me). Fitness geek: turns down social events because they conflict with Sunday 8:00 am schedule. Science dork: watches Star Trek and believes the physics is real Science nerd: reads Scientific American (That's me). Science geek: works in a lab That's just my taxonomy of the world. IP: Logged
neotatsu Super Geek Posts: 160 From: puyallup WA, USA Registered: Jun 2002	posted June 26, 2002 00:43 well, I always call meself all of them...I usually define a nerd as somone who's smart, and could easily be geek, but has yet to develop the skill's...a geek is a person who's intelligent, and has skill(though what skill differs based on their chosen area of geekiness), and a dork is somone who has an interest but not the brain power to be considered a 'nerd' though CAN obtain proper skill if they are motivated enough..I know mostly dorks, I'm mostly nerd(I'm still an in training geek sigh), but TRUE geeks by my deffinition, I've only met two, and they were teachers...oh and most dorks also have an obsession with videogames, and/or anime, though most of them have the moronic perception that dragon ball is a good anime....IT WAS FUCKING MADE FOR *5* YEAR OLDS ...cough sry kinda sumthin that pisses me off heh...odd considering I havn't seen an anime in three months, and I havn't been gaming even 1/4 as much as I used too.. IP: Logged
skylar Geek Apprentice Posts: 47 From: Registered: May 2002	posted June 26, 2002 02:12 dorks don't want to be dorks... they'd far rather be head cheerleader/ captain of the soccer team, but just don't have the blandness down. nerds couldn't and wouldn't be anything else, but they wish that the 'popular' people liked them, and thought they were cooler. geeks are nerds who have made a success of their nerdiness. It doesn't matter whether people like them or not because they don't care, they're cooler than you anyway! (so ner) at least, in my humble experience, this has always been the case sky IP: Logged
rw Super Geek Posts: 247 From: Kirkland, Wash. (US of A) Registered: Nov 2000	posted June 27, 2002 05:30 http://wso.williams.edu/~dgambrel/catgirl/cgoed.gif IP: Logged
xobender Alpha Geek Posts: 293 From: Carrot Colony on Lagoon and Irving. Registered: Mar 2001	posted June 27, 2002 21:24 quote: Originally posted by Zen Master: "Geek" is someone who gets geeked about technology, science, whatever. "Nerd" could be a geek, but dresses oddly and is somewhat lacking in social skills. "Dork" could be a geek and/or a nerd, but has an annoying habit of acting like a nerd-jock and spouting off facts when people dont care, or trying to "one-up" people with knowledge. Dork is totally lacking in social skills. Unfortunately for geeks and nerds, they are often equated with the dork. what if your all three, then what ? IP: Logged

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