Salvete omnes. It's high time to have a Facebook community for Classics. Thus I've created the new group Nerdy Classics Majors. Please check it out.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1188003901262141/
New Facebook Group: Nerdy Classics Majors
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Re: New Facebook Group: Nerdy Classics Majors
With a name like that I think your group may be destined to attract a very small membership; even nerds don't really want to hang out with nerds.Talmid wrote:Salvete omnes. It's high time to have a Facebook community for Classics. Thus I've created the new group Nerdy Classics Majors. Please check it out.
On a minor note, the only majors we have in my part of the world are army personnel.
ETA: I can't actually access the page anyway.
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What's this website, then?Victor wrote:...even nerds don't really want to hang out with nerds.
As for me, I'll have to decline. I'm very loath to mix real life with the internet (sorry, but I don't want to meet up with, call, or text anyone from any forums) and Textkit obviates the need anyway, with its many experienced classics enthusiasts rather than 20-year-old nerdy undergrads.
(e-mail correspondence is a totally different matter)
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Re: New Facebook Group: Nerdy Classics Majors
It's ironic, I'm assuming.Victor wrote:With a name like that I think your group may be destined to attract a very small membership; even nerds don't really want to hang out with nerds.Talmid wrote:Salvete omnes. It's high time to have a Facebook community for Classics. Thus I've created the new group Nerdy Classics Majors. Please check it out.
On a minor note, the only majors we have in my part of the world are army personnel.
ETA: I can't actually access the page anyway.
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All, it's an endearing name like "Computer Geek," which IT guys cling to affectionately. It's also a knockoff of two other robust FB groups with similar names: Nerdy Language Majors (almost 2,000 members) and Nerdy Theology Majors (700+ members).
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It looks like the meaning of "nerd" may have evolved considerably since I was young. Several decades ago the word was unambiguously derogatory; now it seems to be most often used as badge of honour.Talmid wrote:All, it's an endearing name like "Computer Geek," which IT guys cling to affectionately.
I'm unable to find it endearing, personally.
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Victor, it certainly has evolved. I think people started grasping the term affectionally to make it less offensive. Now it's a badge of honor, and this is evident by 2,000 members now part of Nerdy Language Majors on Facebook who have a very robust community. You should check it out at the very least.It looks like the meaning of "nerd" may have evolved considerably since I was young. Several decades ago the word was unambiguously derogatory; now it seems to be most often used as badge of honour.
Here's Nerdy Language Majors: https://www.facebook.com/groups/NerdyLanguageMajors/
And again Nerdy Classics Majors: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1188003901262141/