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scottjoplin

scottjoplin

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There is a lot of ignorance about sound, even professionals aren't taught apparently, how many TV presenters don't know what a microphone does and think they have to shout into it, put them outside and it's worse, females seem to do it more than males, give them a nasal American east coast accent and it's an aural assault
 
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MarcelvdG

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kaputt said:
Isn't "nerd" the word they use to keep us down?
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As a Dutchman I don't care; it's a Dutch tradition that dates back to the sixteenth century to use terms that others use to insult you as if they had a positive connotation. If you do it long and massively enough, they automatically get a positive connotation. In Dutch we call this a geuzennaam.

In the 1970's, the Jamaican toaster Big Youth did exactly the same with this song: YouTube
 
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Fast Eddie D

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Cal Weldon said:
Yes, a nerd used to be the kid at school who wore grandpa glasses, had pens and paper in his shirt pocket, was a social misfit and got beat up a lot.
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Hey, I resemble that remark!

I got good grades in high school and took the nerdiest classes like analytic geometry and introduction to physics. This was in a high school where they graduated hundreds of illiterates every year. In fact flunking and ignorance were badges of honor.

I got the snot beat out of me multiple times every single day. If you weren't in a gang then you were dead meat. I finally took self defense classes. I beat up one bully, one time, in front of a bunch of his knuckle dragging friends. No one ever bothered me again or even said anything to me.

I couldn't wait to leave that neighborhood. My father tried to force me to go to Notre Dame so he could keep tabs on me. I went to SIU, which was as far as I could get from Chicago.

Half the people I knew in high school were either dead or imprisoned for life by the time they were 40. The other half did all right and I still keep in touch with my high school buddies.
 
Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin

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geek: an unfashionable or socially inept person;

nerd:an intelligent, single-minded expert in one field or profession.

At least that is what my dictionary says on the distinction.

I understand that nerds are frequently also geeks but not all nerds are geeks and geeks are not necessarily nerds.
 
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