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  From: Jake Hawkes <jake@eclectic.com.au>
  To  : Tim Ansell <ansell@chariot.net.au>
  Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 22:20:00 +0930

Re: Geek or Nerd?

Tim Ansell wrote:
> 
> For a school project i have to find out what people definition are of
> some english words, i have chosen the words "geek" and "nerd". Since
> most of us on the list would have been called on of the above sometime
> in there life i was wondering what where you definitions of the above.

I feel a geek is one who enjoys the more quirky aspects of technology. 

A nerd is possibly also a geek, but more probably a person who finds it
difficult to participate in social interaction.

--
Jake Hawkes, B. Eng (CSE)

e-mail: jake@eclectic.com.au

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