In the spirit of cooperation (and a show of good faith), you might try adding guesses as to what the other person might mean, that it might be easier to see what you are confused about.
I honestly don’t know what knb means by aspergery. I’ve never met anyone who was diagonsed with aspergers. I find the fictional examples I’ve been told “looked like aspergers” to be vague and not really good evidence to extrapolate from, being very different from each other. I also don’t have a clear idea of what they mean by “nerd”.
On TVTropes, we define “geek” as someone with specialized interests, and “nerd” as someone with poor social skills. A nerd who isn’t a even a geek is Napoleon Dynamite. A geek who isn’t a nerd is Steve Jobs (or president Bartlet from The West Wing). But I hear that our definition is not universal, and that there’s a fair share of controversy.
I think I’m justified in asking knb to specify what he means by those words, given that there seems to be a lack of consensus or a vague consensus, if only for the purpose of this discussion.
Yes, I don’t know that I’d call it trollish behavior, but I also don’t appreciate comments that give you nothing to work with.
Define this. Taboo that. Stating a request in the form of a command is rather irritating, particularly when it’s a request for effort while you’re showing none yourself, and doing nothing to reduce the effort required.
In the spirit of cooperation (and a show of good faith), you might try adding guesses as to what the other person might mean, that it might be easier to see what you are confused about.
I honestly don’t know what knb means by aspergery. I’ve never met anyone who was diagonsed with aspergers. I find the fictional examples I’ve been told “looked like aspergers” to be vague and not really good evidence to extrapolate from, being very different from each other. I also don’t have a clear idea of what they mean by “nerd”.
On TVTropes, we define “geek” as someone with specialized interests, and “nerd” as someone with poor social skills. A nerd who isn’t a even a geek is Napoleon Dynamite. A geek who isn’t a nerd is Steve Jobs (or president Bartlet from The West Wing). But I hear that our definition is not universal, and that there’s a fair share of controversy.
I think I’m justified in asking knb to specify what he means by those words, given that there seems to be a lack of consensus or a vague consensus, if only for the purpose of this discussion.
Yes, I don’t know that I’d call it trollish behavior, but I also don’t appreciate comments that give you nothing to work with.
Define this. Taboo that. Stating a request in the form of a command is rather irritating, particularly when it’s a request for effort while you’re showing none yourself, and doing nothing to reduce the effort required.