hi ppl, could you post your meaning to the word ''nerd'' .... i keep earing it in this board and i dont get the concept very well....i went to the dictionary and it said (among other things)''Someone who strongly loves computers'' ....... but the sense of the word you give to it is much more deep....... and i cant get it .. so post here a meaning between 2 and 100 words of the word ''nerd'' to add to the gamedev dictionary(lol) ........ bye, pavlo

First of all, the dictionary does NOT state that a nerd is someone who is deeply involved with computers or whatever shit you said. Second of all, a nerd is a person who is outcasted (not popular) by other people by various reasons. That''s a vague summary of a nerd.
Please, PLEASE let this be the last ''nerd'' post!!

Programming::~Fredric(const Annoy_Ance)

Damn Fredric, take it easy; he''s from a different country and is asking for the conotations of an english word.

Here is one ofthe best definitions I have found (taken verbatim from guru.net (this is a godsend www.guru.net)

"A person who is single-minded or accomplished in scientific pursuits but is felt to be socially inept."
"A nerd is a technically bright but socially inept person. The classic image of the nerd has been the wild-haired genius kid with thick-lensed glasses surrounded by test tubes and computers. Microsoft''s Bill Gates is sometimes considered the walking embodiment of the older, successful nerd. As computer technology becomes less frightening and "nerdish" to larger numbers of people, society seems to be developing a more tolerant, even somewhat fond view of the nerd."
That should help.

Mike

WOW... we have gotten the holy answer =) The real definition of a nerd... after such a long wait.

If I want to talk to people I have no problem with it... however I am rarely talkative, and when I do talk, I do so too much =) Confusing in''it

J2xC

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About time I put something funny here? I think so too...

hehe, sorry pavlo ... I''m a bit of a prick sometimes, so ignore me when I''m mean!

Programming::~Fredric(const Annoy_Ance)

OK! i have a nerd post...but im still VERY tired about all of this Nerd posts...so let this be the last one!...
Why dont post on the allready existing nerd posts?...

JEWELAYE

topic closed people ---- due to people demands i close this topic......

THANKS for the definition of nerd...

(if you can you still can post here messages, but let the word ''nerd'' get away of people''s minds.....)

well, since Densun brought up the history, I will expand on it a bit. Here it is (again quoted from gurunet)

"WORD HISTORY: The word nerd and a nerd, undefined but illustrated, first appeared in 1950 in Dr. Seuss''s If I Ran the Zoo: “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!” (The nerd itself is a small humanoid creature looking comically angry, like a thin, cross Chester A. Arthur.) Nerd next appears, with a gloss, in the February 10, 1957, issue of the Glasgow, Scotland, Sunday Mail in a regular column entitled “ABC for SQUARES”: “Nerd—a square, any explanation needed?” Many of the terms defined in this “ABC” are unmistakable Americanisms, such as hep, ick, and jazzy, as is the gloss “square,” the current meaning of nerd. The third appearance of nerd in print is back in the United States in 1970 in Current Slang: “Nurd [sic], someone with objectionable habits or traits. . . . An uninteresting person, a ‘dud.’” Authorities disagree on whether the two nerds—Dr. Seuss''s small creature and the teenage slang term in the Glasgow Sunday Mail—are the same word. Some experts claim there is no semantic connection and the identity of the words is fortuitous. Others maintain that Dr. Seuss is the true originator of nerd and that the word nerd (“comically unpleasant creature”) was picked up by the five- and six-year-olds of 1950 and passed on to their older siblings, who by 1957, as teenagers, had restricted and specified the meaning to the most comically obnoxious creature of their own class, a “square.”"


Mike