Name: NERD vs GEEK：如何分辨兩者的區別 (NERD vs GEEK: How to Tell the Difference)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T05:21:04.000Z
Duration: 10 min 11 s

What makes a nerd a nerd and not a geek and a geek a geek and not a nerd?

書呆子具備什麼奇客沒有的特質 奇客又具備什麼書呆子沒有的特質?

Alright, yesterday we released a new music video on our main channel.

我們昨天在主頻道上釋出了一支新MV

It’s called epic rap battle: nerd vs geek.

叫做「饒舌史上大對決: 書呆與奇客」(註: geek原指智力超群，善於鑽研但不愛社交的學者或知識分子)

Thank you for checking that out, for commenting, for sharing that amongst all of your peoples,

especially if they’re interested in the worlds of nerdem and geekdem,

尤其感謝那些對書呆子和奇客世界有興趣的人

which as we’ve discovered in the research of the writing of the song and producing of the music video

are two distinct worlds which cozy up to one another.

Well, let’s give you a little background first.

So this video was sponsored by tigerdirect.

Thanks to tigerdirect for letting us shoot in the store and giving us the stuff that we used in the video.

謝謝tigerdirect (註: 賣電腦、電子用品的線上零售商)讓我們在店裡拍攝、提供道具

But the original concept that we talked about was the epic rap battle of nerdiness.

我們最初的點子是用「書呆氣質」當主題 做一首饒舌歌曲

Cuz you know, we have the original epic rap battle, we have the epic rap battle of manliness

最早期是「獨創饒舌大賽」 之後有「饒舌大賽之男子氣概」

and then we’re like let’s do epic rap battle of nerdiness.

我們就想試試「饒舌大賽之書呆氣質」

And then in the very early stages in developing the idea,

we started doing some research on like what makes you nerdy

and all of a sudden we saw these different articles about geek versus nerd and we’re like,

突然一堆「書呆與奇客」的文章就跑了出來 我們心想

Oh! That’s even better cuz now there’s a battle between the geek and the nerd.

哇! 太好啦 已經有人在討論這兩個名詞了

Well, I mean yeah, once it occurred to us that there was more of a story there

and the two characters being different and not being nerds kind of thing,

I mean I certainly had a point of reference that nerds and geeks aren’t the same thing.

我有充分理由證明書呆和奇客並不同

I know that. – Yeah I wasn’t saying that.

It seemed like a better thing to have a rap battle about.

Wasn’t that who’s more nerdy but the geek versus nerd that caught me.

不是誰更書呆 而是「書呆對上奇客」 這個更吸引我

But what I didn’t understand was how intricately you could parse the differences between the two.

但你要怎麼「精闢剖析」兩者的不同呢?

And I’m using words like parse in order to be a little bit more nerdy… not really.

我用「精闢」、「剖析」之類的字 為了聽起來更像書呆子…沒差嗎?

A guy named, this is the dude’s name, Ber Settles

有個人叫波爾˙賽特 這是他的真名

Which is also – yes he does- also a sentences. It’s also a sentence.

同時也是… -沒錯 -也是一個句子

Ber you should never settle man. Don’t settle.

波爾 你不該輕易滿足現狀 別輕易滿足(註: settle有雙關意，姓名或安頓)

Unless its your last name then just own it.

This guy’s a nerd, I think, because he developed, he actually went in and did this global search of twitter.

我覺得他是書呆子 因為他真的深入研究 把推特翻了個遍

And saw how often certain subjects were associated with the word geek or the word nerd

調查哪些字詞常被跟「書呆」或「奇客」聯想在一起

And then he created a graph that has a bunch of words on there that we’ll put on here

之後做了一張密密麻麻的表 我們會秀在這邊

That shows, it’s basically a function you know, of things that becomes more geeky or things becoming more nerdy

這張表的功能基本上告訴你某些字有多書呆或多奇客、

on this scale and then whether or not things are nerdy or geeky.

And I think .. – Now first of all, I will say the fact that someone went through all this trouble, like you said

-我覺得… -首先 我認為某人煞費苦心的弄出這張圖 如你所說

I’m pretty sure that makes him a nerd especially because the presentation of the chart,

我相信就是這個創舉讓他變成書呆子

That would be something that a geek would do.

A nerd would parse all this data and figure out how to segment it and compile it and all this type of stuff

書呆子徹底分析一切數據 然後將之分段、彙編之類的

that you do with data but then a geek would be the one who would make it cool looking.

奇客則把資料轉化成一張有特色的圖

And this one looks very nerdy, and it’s like illegible as you get into the more geeky,

這張看起來就是書呆子做的 奇客程度越高的字越難懂

maybe because he’s a nerd he’s like ‘I don’t care how geeky it gets’ that’s when you can’t read it anymore.

或許因為圖表製作人本身是書呆 他才不在乎奇客的字好不好懂

Here’s what I want to do. Because we did some research and I know you have looked at this  - right.

-這樣吧 我們之前做了些研究 而你已經看過這張表 -是的

But I want to see if this stuff is still with you.

I’m just gonna name some of these things that are right along this line

whether it’s geek or nerd and I want you to tell me whether this is a geeky thing or a nerdy thing.

有可能歸在奇客或書呆子類 你要告訴我哪個單字是哪一類

Well, start further out first. Okay further out.

That’s a nerd. Now that’s interesting because I’ve never heard of the term band nerd

書呆 這就奇了 我之前沒聽過樂團書呆這種字眼

但我聽過樂團奇客(註: 熱愛樂器演奏的人)

But when I think of someone who plays the cello,

Well yeah, I mean you’re right. This is the nerdiest thing on the scale

嗯 是沒錯啦 這是表上最最書呆的單字

Again, this is so difficult because band geek.

這題滿難的 我一直在想樂團奇客

Yeah yeah if I said tuba, you would go with geek. I don’t know.

如果我說簧管演奏者 你就會覺得是奇客 我不知道啦

I’m just, look listen, I’m just, I’m the messenger here.

Of course. Here’s .. here’s something a little…

Nerds, nerds are you know, they are typically very much centered at being smart.

Geeks are kind of, they’re smart but they have social sense

奇客也很聰明 差在他們有社會意識

or they’re more socially aware maybe to a fault.

How did you know that? Because typically mac is the geek.

你怎麼知道? 通常麥金塔才被歸為奇客

Well you’re wrong. Microsoft is on the line but he has it– it’s on the line- but he has it on the geek side

-錯了 微軟有在表上 不過… -總之是被歸在奇客類

But it’s on the line, so that’s in the overlap.

但它在交界線上 所以也算介於書呆和奇客之間

Like I mean foodies I think, you can be a foodie geek.

如果指美食家的話 我想可能是有美食家奇客

Vegetables are nerdy. I don’t know why.

Awkward I would say more nerd. Definitely.

Geek. Anything more pop culture-y I consider it being more geeky.

奇客 偏向流行文化的我都覺得屬於奇客範圍

Nope, he got Zelda as nerd and he has The Hobbit as the nerd

錯了 製圖者把薩爾達傳說和哈比人都放在書呆子這邊

which, incidentally, we had the geek in our rap battle become Gandalf.

我們饒舌大賽裡的奇客最後卻變成甘道夫(註: 小說魔戒裡的人物)

薩爾達居然在交界線上那麼偏右