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Originally Posted by highlandgirl  Ok. A post I read got me thinking. Person said that being on here meant he was officially a nerd now. But someone else said it meant that we are geeks. So I was wondering, I've heard before that there's a difference. What is the difference between a nerd and a geek? And by playing LOTRO 24/7, living on the forums, and beta testing new servers, etc. and so on. (man I love using both my computers at once, hehe), does this make me a geek or a nerd? What is the difference?  |
I guess it all depends on how you define a nerd vis-a-vis a geek. Here's two quotes to explain my position:
First, from devastatingly brilliant and sadly, very dead author Douglas Adams:
(and I paraphrase)
"Some people think that if anyone ever discovers the true nature and purpose of the universe, it will immediately cease to exist and be replaced with something even more bizarrely inexplicable. Other people think this has already happened."
In my mind, the first people are the nerds, the last are the geeks.
Second quote, from Thomas Huxley:
"Try to know something about everything and everything about something"
If you can do the first, that's a nerd, but if you can do the second, that's a geek.
Of course, it should be pointed out that just by discussing the comparative merits of the two, we have created an as yet un-named third category, surpassing the first two, to which we must now belong.
Nerd or geek? 
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