@Ryip oh, and sorry it took so long to respond. I'm visiting family
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@Roadkillover No worries 🙂
To put it simply :
- "Geek" did be "insulting" in the past century (but that's long gone since the 21st century and the wide spread of Internet). Nowadays it pertain to ppl having a strong interest and revolving around Internet and new technologies (e.g.: "otakus" are geeks especially interested into mangas/manhwas/manhuas, you also have geeks especially interested by video games, or some who specialize over taking great care of some kind of animals (cats, dogs, fishes, birds, repitles, horses, etc), you can encounter geeks in cooking, in sewing, in DIY, etc, as long as it's ppl very well versed and innovative). Geeks are more and more seen as people having a special hobby or two that they regard as the epitome of their passion/happiness.
- "Nerd" can/is sometimes be considered "insulting", as it bears much stronger stereotypes. It pertains to people often shun away for having too strong/specialyzed of an interest, to the point they can show a "teacher syndrome" (when encountering ppl foreign to their interest, they tend to happily share their knowledge and don't easily percieve the weariness of their interlocutor on such high end subject). Nerds also often more than geeks wear/prefer glasses even over the possibility of contact lenses is available (you might even come across nerds not needing prescription glasses but still wearing some for the seriousness feature/feeling they see in this gear). But nerds now might show some pride in being called such, as if being called "special" in both bad and good ways equally from non-geeks as well from geeks themselves.
To put it simply :
- "Geek" did be "insulting" in the past century (but that's long gone since the 21st century and the wide spread of Internet). Nowadays it pertain to ppl having a strong interest and revolving around Internet and new technologies (e.g.: "otakus" are geeks especially interested into mangas/manhwas/manhuas, you also have geeks especially interested by video games, or some who specialize over taking great care of some kind of animals (cats, dogs, fishes, birds, repitles, horses, etc), you can encounter geeks in cooking, in sewing, in DIY, etc, as long as it's ppl very well versed and innovative). Geeks are more and more seen as people having a special hobby or two that they regard as the epitome of their passion/happiness.
- "Nerd" can/is sometimes be considered "insulting", as it bears much stronger stereotypes. It pertains to people often shun away for having too strong/specialyzed of an interest, to the point they can show a "teacher syndrome" (when encountering ppl foreign to their interest, they tend to happily share their knowledge and don't easily percieve the weariness of their interlocutor on such high end subject). Nerds also often more than geeks wear/prefer glasses even over the possibility of contact lenses is available (you might even come across nerds not needing prescription glasses but still wearing some for the seriousness feature/feeling they see in this gear). But nerds now might show some pride in being called such, as if being called "special" in both bad and good ways equally from non-geeks as well from geeks themselves.