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“Let's get away from the heavier stuff and get into my total nerdling stuff...”
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“What happened that helped you develop from nerdling into more socially-adept adult?”
“I guess back when I was into castles as a little nerdling I would be getting wet reading all this.”
“When I was a wee little nerdling (this was back in the 70's, before being a nerd was cool) my grandma had an old clothes-wringer device down in her basement.”
“Crisp investor who never truly outgrew his inner high-waisted pants and suspenders nerdling (well, those pants are now filled with a ton of cash and are probably Armani).”
“But I also still have the little nerdling in me that scoured pharmacy and newstand spinner racks all over town in search of Marvel books in the 80s - because there is something about continuity that appealed to me, but also because I always want the rest of the story (big Paul Harvey fan, too).”
“You play Myron, an everyday nerdling sweeping floors at the local robotic toaster factory - a factory which just happens to also manufacture semi-sentient killing machines.”
“Ever since I was a wee nerdling poring through the leatherette-bound wonders of the World Book, I've loved that progression from simian common ancestor, up through the goblinoid australopithecine and the spear-toting Neanderthal, to modern Homo sapiens, who sometimes comes complete with fedora and briefcase, a proudly striding Adonis commuting into the future.”
“It’s the story of a young nerdling living in LA who’s obsession over the latest Sci Fi movie has led her to take on the persona of the main character.”
“She made additional worksheets for me when I was a nerdling four year old who couldn’t get enough of the workbooks they sell at WalMart, having already worked through all of the available grades.”
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You think you're so smart, don't you?
Brainy kids, from someone else's POV.
poindexter, pencil head, egghead, smartmouth, geek, brainiac, square, nerdling, double-dome, brain, pointy head, honor student and 19 more...
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SlSlR It's a small kid on his/her way to becoming a fully fledged nerd Jun 8, 2009
seanahan The Jargon File has a number of interesting synonyms for this (as expected), including the standard newbie and the interesting chainik. Apr 15, 2009
chained_bear Well spake! But I would argue, based on your own explanation, that in the definition here (except for the word "naive," which I just noticed--duh--and which seems a bit ambiguous in this definition), a hacker is by definition a geek (knows a lot about hacking), and not necessarily a nerd ("naive").
Signed, One Who Loves a Geek Apr 14, 2009
tammanycall Of course there's a difference between nerds and geeks. A nerd's defining characteristic is general smartness. A geek's is a deep and obsessive love of a specific subject. A nerd can be a geek when it comes to a certain topic, but not all geeks are nerds, and no one can be a geek about everything. Apr 14, 2009
chained_bear I protest! That's not the definition for nerdling—it's a geekling! There's a difference between nerds and geeks. Just ask any of us... er... either of us. Apr 14, 2009
tammanycall An inexperienced an naive computer hacker who needs to spread his wings and fly.
Apr 14, 2009