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I'm glad my sentences started such great conversation.
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Interesting.....
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Thanks for the note, Lou Ann. I have been called that once by a native speaker, but I never asked about the usage of the word.
I think I'll keep "nerd" for future times. "Matado" has that pejorative meaning.
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Interesting that a native speaker used that word. I'm an educator, and when I was a student I could EASILY have been called that (absolutely and totally boring-ly studious!!) But maybe it's a regional thing, too. Hmm...
Yeah, "nerd" ... don't say "nerd" unless you know the person well and you intend it to be tongue-in-cheek or lovingly teasing. It's really not a nice thing to say. Imagine a playground bully picking on someone who wears old-fashioned clothes and has straight A's. Sometimes we call ourselves "nerd". For example, I'm a photography nerd. I could sit around and read articles about the science of cameras. I'm also a cooking nerd. I love to look online for explanations about WHY yeast works, or how BEST to make pesto. You get the point. I'm poking fun of myself.
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"Nerd" is definitely my word there. To call someone "matado" has that offensive content.
No quiero sentarme junto a los matados. I don't want to Ella siempre llega a tiempo. Es la matadita de la clase. She's always on time. She's the little nerd of the class. (Here the diminutive is even more insidious).
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I'm not sure, but I'm thinking that "nerd" is probably a bit less intense than "matado". Yeah, it's not nice to call someone a "nerd", but it's definitely something that many "nerds" would actually understand/accept about themselves. (I do!)
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Nerd, as you now know, has a negative and positive connotation. A nerd may lack social skills because they are focused on other things. Sometimes class nerds become top lawyers, or physicists or educators, and the people who poke fun at them end up repairing tires as a career.
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It's true one can also say "Soy un matado y me gusta serlo" (I'm a nerd and I like to be one), but most of the times the social stigma is present.
@Lou Ann: Indeed.
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