2016年7月9日 星期六

role model, brainiac, geekiness, intelligentsia

"Next time you’re the victim of reverse snobbery, your vast knowledge derided as geekiness, your erudition dismissed as part of the intelligentsia, your intense curiosity for facts overlooked in favour of empty, over-simplistic rhetoric, think about geek as a role-modelling term, not one of a bullying victim. It’s time for the brainiacs to get bellicose."
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geeky 

Pronunciation: /ˈɡiːki/ 

ADJECTIVE (geekiergeekiest)

1Unfashionable and socially inept:the geeky kid getting bullied at school
1.1Knowledgeable and obsessively interested in something, especially technology:bunch of geeky techieshis geeky obsession with model cars


role model 

Pronunciation:

NOUN  1957

A person looked to by others as an example to be imitated.

brainiac 

Pronunciation: /ˈbreɪnɪak/ 

NOUN

North American informal
An exceptionally intelligent person:she’s the original brainiac, a kid who completed high school at 14

Origin

1950s: from the name of a supremely intelligent alien character in the Superman comic strip, from a blend of brain and maniac.

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