I hope i'm not offending anyone by this! i have always wondered what the true meaning of 'nerd' was...and what differnt people think of them. i've always admired smart people, they always seem to work things out. cos like...um.. yeah
on the online dictionary this is what it had to say for nerd:

" 1. A foolish, inept, or unattractive person.
2. A person who is single-minded or accomplished in scientific or technical pursuits but is felt to be socially inept."

do you think this is true? my friends call me a nerd for finishing off my biology report in the hoildays.. i think about one week before it was due... does that make me a nerd...i personally don't mind being called a nerd~

The latter is most correct, to be sure. I'm surprised you found the first one in a dictionary.

And no, your'e not a nerd just because you care about your'e biology grades.

My definition of nerd: someone who is over obsessed with something.

No you're not a nerd. Being smart, organized and using your time wisely is not a sense of nerd. your friends are the dumb ones, who's in the dumps trying to finish the assignment in the last minute.

The most popular reason that "nerd" comes with the connotation of "anti-social" or "unpopular" is because "nerds" are often interested in subjects and/or topics that few of their peers are. Professors are nerds, but they are not necessarily anti-social. Young teen philosophers are often branded as nerdy because no one else in their circles ever think about what it means to exist. Burning questions find no fuel. These and some other considerations lead me to think of "nerd" as primarily a descriptive term for one's intellectual pursuits.

Meet a sixteen year old 'jock' who reads scholarly stuff on quantum physics. It's really wierd.

I think i am a nerd cause i do all that stuff you said except that i'm not definition one-- A foolish, inept, or unattractive person. no, you are not a nerd for completing an assignment well before due. i think that i am a nerd cause i am overly obsessed with things no one else knows about/ comprehends. also, i think i am kind of -- okay, very much-- a loner in school. no, i don't think smart people are nerds cause before ashton kutcher became an actor and model he majored in like bio-physics (something).

i think i'm not accepted and am smart. that's what i think it takes to be a nerd and that's why i think i am one. o_OU

The word nerd was invented by Dr. Seuss. It was a creature in the book If I Ran the Zoo.

The most common usage is someone who is intellectual but lacks a sense of style and is socially inept.

The term "nerd", meaning "square" goes back at least to 1951, when Newsweek reported the usage as relatively new in Detroit. By the 1960s, it took on connotations of bookishness as well as social ineptitude. The word itself first appeared in Dr. Seuss's book If I Ran the Zoo, published in 1950, where it simply names one of Seuss's many comical imaginary animals. (The narrator Gerald McGrew claims that he would collect "a Nerkle, a Nerd, and a Seersucker too" for his imaginary zoo.) Another theory of the word's origin sees it as a variation on Mortimer Snerd, the name of Edgar Bergen's ventriloquist dummy. Yet another theory traces the term to Northern Electric Research and Development, suggesting images of employees wearing pocket protectors with the acronym N.E.R.D. printed on them. Finally, oral history at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute holds that the word was coined there, spelled as "knurd" ("drunk" spelled backwards), to describe those who studied rather than partied. (This usage predates a similar coinage of "knurd" by author Terry Pratchett
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerd

It's amazing how usage changes the meanings of words. A geek is now an extremely intelligent person, usually associated with technology. It used to be a sideshow performer who bit the heads off live chickens.

i hope i'm not offending anyone by this! i have always wondered what the true meaning of 'nerd' was...and what differnt people think of them. i've always admired smart people, they always seem to work things out. cos like...um.. yeah
on the online dictionary this is what it had to say for nerd:

" 1. A foolish, inept, or unattractive person.
2. A person who is single-minded or accomplished in scientific or technical pursuits but is felt to be socially inept."

do you think this is true? my friends call me a nerd for finishing off my biology report in the hoildays.. i think about one week before it was due... does that make me a nerd...i personally don't mind being called a nerd~

i don't think unattractive should be used.. I know some guys who party, drink, smoke and have sex like every weekend, but they love shit like CS and Halo too

Theres a difference between a nerd and a geek right? Geeks somehow are cooler in a way or am I wrong? Geeks specialize in something most would not care for, or bother to try and look into, while nerds are somehow seperated from society altogether? XD

I was considered a nerd in elementary school... -_-

i hope i'm not offending anyone by this! i have always wondered what the true meaning of 'nerd' was...and what differnt people think of them. i've always admired smart people, they always seem to work things out. cos like...um.. yeah
on the online dictionary this is what it had to say for nerd:

" 1. A foolish, inept, or unattractive person.
2. A person who is single-minded or accomplished in scientific or technical pursuits but is felt to be socially inept."

do you think this is true? my friends call me a nerd for finishing off my biology report in the hoildays.. i think about one week before it was due... does that make me a nerd...i personally don't mind being called a nerd~

from what i've heard from friends and movies <- which may not be true. nerd is just someone very smart. who works and studies days and night...thats my interpretation i guess...but its not confirmed so yeah...sorry..

My meaning of nerd a smart person that is apriated 4 hiz smartness and gets picked on or left our beacause of it

"nerd" is more like a slang term in life now rather then always following a certain meaning.. but just like the word "dude" it's dictionary definition doesn't really fit how it's used... nerds can be those who are goofy, smart, or those with an obession with something that their peers may consider "weird" or "too much"... and in current society being called a "nerd" isn't really a bad thing and people will proudly call themselves a nerd!.. as for the complete anitsocial we call them "weird".. lol
as for it being good or bad, that will depend on what YOU feel a nerd it, and how the people around you all view what a "nerd" is.. ((if they all think it's an insult, then you will likely feel that way too b/c that's who you were raised around))

Theres a difference between a nerd and a geek right?

Basically, a nerd is a geek without social skills or fashion sense.

A person who gains pleasure from amassing large quantities of knowledge about subjects often too detailed or complicated for most other people to be bothered with.

Often mistaken for Geeks, who aspire to become nerds, yet lack the intelligence, and end up giving nerds a bad name due to their poor social skills.

Non-nerds are often scared of nerds, due to their detailed knowledge, and therefore seemingly high levels of intelligence - and subsequently denegrate them as much as possible as often as possible.

Nerds exist covertly within the fabric of society, often choosing to 'nerd it up' in private or in the company of fellow nerds. It is for this reason they are feared the most - unlike geeks, who are easily identified, nerds can only be found out when casual conversation reaches a subject that they like nerding.Geek: "I am a nerd"
Nerd: "Let's bash this nerd"

Nerd: "That'll teach you to go playing with my tesla coil"

Got that from http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nerd