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Old November 10, 2008, 04:17 PM
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Como se dice "nerd" en español

How would you translate nerd into Spanish?
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Old November 10, 2008, 04:23 PM
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En México, he escuchado algunos usar la misma palabra nerd.
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Old November 10, 2008, 07:17 PM
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En Argentina, se usa nerd o traga.
Sos un nerd.
Sos un traga. (Éste porque se traga libros.)
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Old November 10, 2008, 07:46 PM
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Old November 10, 2008, 08:17 PM
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I also say Nerd.

I don't meet another word or you same can to use smart.
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Old November 10, 2008, 10:41 PM
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Here you go. From wikipedia: (Crotalito- checa la palabra que según usan en Paraguay )
  • Argentina y Uruguay: traga, nerd, geek.
  • Bolivia: "cabeza" un termino poco utilizado y "corcho" denominativo que se le da a las personas que sacan excelentes calificaciones o simplemente tienen conocimiento de algo.
  • Chile: ñoño, nerd, nerdy, mateo, friki, perno.
  • Colombia: pilo, pepa, nerd, ratón de biblioteca.
  • Costa Rica: verde, nerdo, lelo, sapo.
  • Cuba: tostao, quemao, filtro, taco, escapao, volao.
  • Ecuador: cerebrito, afanoso.
  • El Salvador: Nerd, Soso, Ñoño.
  • España: empollón, friki (vulgarismo derivado del anglicismo "freak" o "freaky", cuyo significado es 'extraño'), cerebrito.
  • México: cerebrito, matado, ratón de biblioteca, ñoño, inteligente pero debilucho, nerd, geek, teto.
  • Paraguay: bocho, nerd.
  • Perú: ganso,mongolón, chancón (éste, socialmente es regular o bueno).
  • Puerto Rico: estofón, comelibros.
  • Venezuela: coco, taco, cráneo, cerebrito, nerdo, huevo, friki.
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I would pick out the word friki for this side of the puddle, which is very new, just a few years old. Nerd is not getting through, at least right now. A friki is also someone zany, a weirdo, not only a computer friki.

Example: the guy who went to the last eurovision contest for spain.
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Rusty, I agree with you, I also say "Come libros" - traga libros jajajaja

Tambien usamos "Raton de biblioteca" - queriendo decir que esa persona practicamente vive en las bibliotecas leyendo y estudiando, although....nowdays with the internet who has the time to go to a library???
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Noone, nowadays all the things are in the internet, you don't need anymore the library.
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Come on, guys...Libraries are so romantic
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