For folk som er veldig interessert, limer inn omfattende definisjoner på
både geek og nerd (jeg har bestandig oppfattet dem som synonymer jeg da) fra
Hypertext Webster Gateway. Geek kommer først, så nerd.
hilsen,
Chris
>From Jargon File (4.3.0, 30 APR 2001) (jargon)
geek n. A person who has chosen concentration rather than conformity; one
who pursues skill (especially technical skill) and imagination, not
mainstream social acceptance. Geeks usually have a strong case of
{neophilia}. Most geeks are adept with computers and treat {hacker} as a
term of respect, but not all are hackers themselves – and some who _are_ in
fact hackers normally call themselves geeks anyway, because they (quite
properly) regard `hacker’ as a label that should be bestowed by others
rather than self-assumed.
One description (http://www.darkwater.com/omni/geek.html) accurately if a
little breathlessly enumerates «gamers, ravers, science fiction fans, punks,
perverts, programmers, nerds, subgenii, and trekkies. These are people who
did not go to their high school proms, and many would be offended by the
suggestion that they should have even wanted to.»
Originally, a `geek’ was a carnival performer who bit the heads off
chickens. Before about 1990 usage of this term was rather negative. Earlier
versions of this lexicon defined a `computer geek’ as one who eats
(computer) bugs for a living – an asocial, malodorous, pasty-faced
monomaniac with all the personality of a cheese grater. This is often still
the way geeks are regarded by non-geeks, but as the mainstream culture
becomes more dependent on technology and technical skill mainstream
attitudes have tended to shift towards grudging respect. Correspondingly,
there are now `geek pride’ festivals (the implied reference to `gay pride’
is not accidental).
See also {propeller head}, {clustergeeking}, {geek out}, {wannabee},
{terminal junkie}, {spod}, {weenie}, {geek code}.
>From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
nerd n : a student who studies excessively [syn: {swot}, {grind}, {wonk}]
>From Jargon File (4.3.0, 30 APR 2001) (jargon)
nerd n. 1. [mainstream slang] Pejorative applied to anyone with an
above-average IQ and few gifts at small talk and ordinary social rituals. 2.
[jargon] Term of praise applied (in conscious ironic reference to sense 1)
to someone who knows what’s really important and interesting and doesn’t
care to be distracted by trivial chatter and silly status games. Compare
{geek}.
The word itself appears to derive from the lines «And then, just to show
them, I’ll sail to Ka-Troo / And Bring Back an It-Kutch, a Preep and a Proo,
/ A Nerkle, a Nerd, and a Seersucker, too!» in the Dr. Seuss book «If I Ran
the Zoo» (1950). (The spellings `nurd’ and `gnurd’ also used to be current
at MIT, where `nurd’ is reported from as far back as 1957.) How it developed
its mainstream meaning is unclear, but sense 1 seems to have entered mass
culture in the early 1970s (there are reports that in the mid-1960s it meant
roughly «annoying misfit» without the connotation of intelligence).
An IEEE Spectrum article (4/95, page 16) once derived `nerd’ in its variant
form `knurd’ from the word `drunk’ backwards, but this bears all the
hallmarks of a bogus folk etymology.
Hackers developed sense 2 in self-defense perhaps ten years later, and some
actually wear «Nerd Pride» buttons, only half as a joke. At MIT one can find
not only buttons but (what else?) pocket protectors bearing the slogan and
the MIT seal.
—–Opprinnelig melding—–
Fra: Ringen, Erik [mailto:e-ringe@online.no]
Sendt: 12. november 2002 15:27
Til: O-ringen
Emne: SPM paint-by-numbers
Almost nothing is real here: not the super-naturalistic forest with a
paint-by-numbers flavor that occupies the surface of the walls like a kitsch
wall-paper;
Det er snakk om en slags kunstnerisk installasjon.
Jeg har funnet noe om «painting by numbers» i New Oxford, men jeg skjønner
visst ikke forklaringen av det.
Er det noen av dere som kan forklare meg hva uttrykket betyr.
PS. En ting til jeg har lurt på lenge, men det har ingen ting å gjøre med
jobb, så ikke kast bort tid på å svare hvis dere ikke har veldig lyst:
Er det noen som vet forskjellen mellom en «geek» og en «nerd» ?
Hørte en amerikansk studine beklage seg over at gutta på kullet hennes bare
var geeks og nerds.