I think people who have glasses and carry around math books with them are called nerds in US? What are the other people called ? Cool maybe..!

If thats how this world works then i want to go to Mars please.

Nerds is a term given to people that are smart. Oddly enough the people that are not smart almost use this word as a putdown, or something that may be offensive, as if being smart was a bad thing.

:bugeye:

I just looked in the dictionary

nerd: an unstylish or socialy inept person; one slavishly devoted to intellectual pursuits

Hmm.. well the first sentence is negative but the second sentence can be positive (depends on your point of view)

I wonder what the roots for this word is

From: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

ETYMOLOGY: Perhaps after Nerd, a character in If I Ran the Zoo, by Theodor Seuss Geisel.
OTHER FORMS: nerdy —ADJECTIVE

WORD HISTORY: The word 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 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.”

well that settles that

nerd as i know it is a much more fliexible word.
there all types of nerds.

music nerds
computer nerds
science nerds
lit nerds
sifi nerds

and general all around nerds. :D

http://www.schs.org/photos/1999-2000/nerd/nerds12.jpg

http://www.schs.org/photos/1999-2000/nerd/nerd11.jpg

but those are nerds. That would be the correct identification sir.

thats f'n hilarious man. haha

Nerds are clearly the next step and as such will kill or dominate other life forms. Just wait a bit.

"The meek shall inherit the earth" (quote I can't remember where from)

Those people make me glad I'm a geek.

geek ( P ) Pronunciation Key (gk)
n. Slang

1.A person regarded as foolish, inept, or clumsy.
A person who is single-minded or accomplished in scientific or technical pursuits but is felt to be socially inept.


2.A carnival performer whose show consists of bizarre acts, such as biting the head off a live chicken.


I'm diggin the # 2 definition

Im sure they said and the "Geek" shall inherit the Earth but they probably didn't know what it meant back then and assumed they mis-heard and it must of been "meek".
Either that or someone from the "time machine" thread above has been having fun screwing with peoples minds ^_^.

I don't think they are nerds, they are definitely computer dweebs.