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Will the “Real” Nerds Please Stand Up?

Will the “Real” Nerds Please Stand Up?

In a recent post on CBC Radio 3’s blog, host Lana Gay asked whether her lis­ten­ers con­sider them­selves “music nerds.” Their responses pro­vide some exam­ples of peo­ple wrestling with what nerd means today, and how it relates to other terms like geek, afi­cionado, snob, or—dare I say?—hip­ster:* Alex­o­fAn­ders writes, “I don’t really think I...

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