Nerd vs. Geek
I'd like to take this time to inform you all, that there is a difference between a Geek and a Nerd. Both terms have a distinctly different meaning, and they are not always used in a derogatory way.
"Nerd vs. Geek": Nerds lack nearly all basic social skills except for the ability to talk incoherently about some obscure science topic. Geeks, on the other hand, have the ability to carry on a conversation like most non-nerd/geek people. If you were to release both a nerd and a geek into the wild, the nerd would seek out the other nerds already present, while the geek would mingle with the non-nerd/geek people for a while, possibly a few hours. Nerds are generally lower on the social totem pole than geeks are, you might say. So geek and nerd cannot be used interchangeably, similar to how you really cannot interchange the words swan and duck even though the two seem very similar.
Snippet taken from Wikipedia
Apr 04, 2008
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