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With their conspicuous pocket protectors, their too-short pants showing an expanse of white sock, their love of gadgets, and their gaucherie around girls, nerds are perhaps the most familiar of all the strange, wild tribes that inhabit the modern American high school.(The Week)(high school geek classification)(Brief article)
With their conspicuous pocket protectors, their too-short pants showing an expanse of white sock, their love of gadgets, and their gaucherie around girls, nerds are perhaps the most familiar of all the strange, wild tribes that inhabit the modern American high school. There is even a sort of nerdpride movement, possibly inspired by the worldly success of uber-nerd Bill Gates: The 1984 movie Revenge of the Nerds has generated three sequels. It is therefore not surprising to learn that nerdishness has attracted learned academic investigation. Linguist Mary Bucholtz of the University of California has been studying nerds for the past twelve years. Her conclusions, reported in the New York Times: It's all ...
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